How to install an old port from the binary archive?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 31, 2021, at 08:52, Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong wrote:

> The latest gcc11 port has disabled the jit and thus broke emacs-devel. I am trying to install an older version of gcc11 from the default binary archive. I can see the tarball clearly still exists on `https://packages.macports.org/libgcc11/`, but `port -b install` from a local ports dir complains about `Error: Failed to archivefetch libgcc11: Binary-only mode requested with no usable archive sites configured`, what gives?

You would have to modify (backdate) the Portfile in the main ports tree, not in a local ports dir.

See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/59463

I find this unexpected as well but that's what it is for now.