a way to specify that the port is source-only

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 31, 2012, at 13:12, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to specify in the *Portfile* that this particular
> port should be always compiled and never fetched precompiled?
> 
> Problem:
> 
> I have some ports patched and being distributed through the 
> company's own portfile repo.  Let's say I have a custom
> "postgresql91" port with our custom patches.  Now, on many
> machines, instead of building it, it just downloads a pre-built
> version.  Can we add an option in Portfiles, like 
>     "source_only   yes" 
> or something like that?

Yes, add this line to such portfiles:

archive_sites

This clears the MacPorts default value for archive_sites, causing MacPorts to no longer have anyplace to fetch an archive for this port from. We already do this in several official portfiles.