Removing mport:// sources (Was: Re: Removing port submit)

[Rainer Müller]

On 2013-08-22 06:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Aug 20, 2013, at 19:33, Joshua Root wrote:
>> On 2013-8-20 20:48 , Clemens Lang wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:20:39AM +1000, Joshua Root wrote:
>>>> Please revert the part that breaks the ability to install directly
>>>> from a remote archive.
>>>
>>> Please provide an example of what you are trying to achieve. There is no
>>> documentation whatsoever that this was ever supported and working. I'm
>>> not going to take a shot in the dark with this without having a way to
>>> test.
>>
>> sudo port install
>> https://packages.macports.org/zlib/zlib-1.2.7_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2
>>
>> It's the easiest way of installing an older version of a port.
> 
> I had no idea that was possible.

Me neither.

However, I doubt it works that well to install an older version if
dependencies got updated, too. As long as the ABI is still the same for
all dependencies it should work, though.

Is this something we should recommend here?
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort

Rainer