Binary archives are never fetched for files in my local port repository

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 7 September 2016 at 09:25, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2016-9-6 23:58 , Brandon Allbery wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>>     I recently figured out that ports that I have in my local repository
>>     are *never* updated from the binary archives, but always compiled from
>>     sources. MacPorts doesn't even try to fetch the binary archives, it
>>     goes straight to fetching the sources.
>>
>>
>> Every repository has its own binary archives. After all, if you have it
>> in your local repository, this is a pretty obvious indication that you
>> are doing something different from the port in the main repo that has
>> the binary archive, and that the binary archive for the main port
>> therefore can't be considered compatible with your local port.

In my case I try my best to stay compatible and up-to-date.

> That's right. If you look at portarchivefetch::get_full_archive_sites_path
> in src/package1.0/portarchivefetch.tcl, it deliberately doesn't fall back to
> the default resources path.
>
> If there is a _resources/port1.0/fetch/archive_sites.tcl in the repo, it
> will be used.

Thank you, adding that file solved the problem.

Mojca