Fw: non standard install location and binary packages

[Eric Le Lay]

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Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 16:54:36 +0200
De: Eric Le Lay <elelay at macports.org>
À: Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org>
Sujet: Re: non standard install location and binary packages


Le Sun, 11 May 2014 21:30:30 +1000,
Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> a écrit :

> It shouldn't just warn, it should error out if archivefetch does not
> succeed in fetching an archive. And that works fine when using -b
> with a default prefix, at least.

Agreed. It should error out.
For me (beta2) it doesn't error out when using -b with non default
prefix.

> 
> But we do appear to be assuming in a couple of places that if you are
> using binary-only mode then you will have at least one usable entry in
> archive_sites; archivefetch_main for example where all_archive_files
> will be empty if there are no archive_sites.
> 
> So while this configuration should not be expected to work, we should
> error out instead of continuing. r119938
> 

Looks good! I've added a page in the wiki to describe binary archives.
I think a link to it from the error message would be nice, don't you
think? http://trac.macports.org/wiki/BinaryArchives#blocks

Anybody please feel free to correct/enrich this page. I just tried to
gather the little knowledge I have about them...