Binary downloads

[Blair Zajac]

More questions.

How are variants handled for dependent packages?

For example, I add a bunch of default variants to variants.conf that has 
perl5.* compile using +shared +threads and if this changes Perl's ABI, 
then how are the dependent binary Perl modules handled?

Actually, a better example is Python, I compile with +ucs4 which changes 
the functions for managing Unicode and if a binary module is loaded into 
a Python with +ucs2, then things will fail with missing symbols.

Should binary downloads be disabled if a reverse-dependent package has a 
non-default variant set?

Thanks,
Blair

On 04/10/2012 08:16 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
> I blew away my /opt/local to start over after I got a SQL error I asked
> about in a previous thread [1] and noticed that the new build is using
> binary downloads.
>
> 1) Were binary downloads enabled for a while and it's just because I'm
> reintalling "core" packages that I'm seeing this?
>
> 2) Is there a way to disable binary downloads and always compile myself?
>
> 3) What file format is the rmd160 files? Are those signatures or checksums?
>
> Thanks,
> Blair
>
> [1]
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2012-April/018514.html