hosting an internal macports server with binaries

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 7, 2007, at 17:39, Rick Gigger wrote:

> Is it possible to have an internal macports mirror that also  
> contains binaries, so I can compile all the ports I need once and  
> install them on several boxes instead of re-compiling everything on  
> every single box?

That functionality does not exist.

One small thing you could do: after you install all the ports you  
want on one system, you can copy the /opt/local/var/db/dports/ 
distfiles directory from that machine to another machine where you  
want to install ports. That way the second machine will not need to  
download the distribution files again. However, it will still need to  
compile and install the software itself.

You could attempt to copy other parts of /opt/local to the other  
machine as well. I don't know how well that would work. Certainly,  
the machines would have be set up virtually identically in other  
respects -- same processor architecture to be sure, same exact OS  
version, same OS updates installed, same X11.

It is an eventual goal of MacPorts to provide binaries of the ports,  
rather than make everyone compile them themselves. However, I  
estimate we're still a long way away from anything resembling that  
kind of functionality.