Desolate Condition

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/26/21 9:41 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> I have used MacPorts to package a substantial application (MythTV).  As an overview, MythTV and all its dependencies were installed to a custom prefix (/opt/dvr)*.  A couple of helper apps (Applescripts, if you want the full truth) are the only things installed under /Applications/MacPorts/MythTV.  The package installer recreates this layout on the destination machine.  I don’t see why you couldn’t continue with your current layout, however.
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> MacPorts provides support to create a standard package installer (port mpkg) or dmg (port mdmg).  See man port-mpkg for the basics.  If it helps, I wrote a wiki page with a few of the issues that I encountered:
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> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/CreateInstallers

Cool, thanks! I think this will be helpful.

> Ping me if you have questions.
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> Craig
> * In a custom prefix, _everything_ has to be built from source.  The initial build will take a _long_ time.  A very long time.

Ohh, I'm used to that. As a packager I'm okay with eating that build time.

Cheers,
Andrew