Is there any value to packages? [was Re: Why no binaries?]

[Anders F Björklund]

paul beard wrote:

> I missed something in my previous post: the directory for the port had 
> been cleaned, and apparently the pkg command doesn't expect that, nor 
> does it know what to do about it. So it bails. 
>
> If you build first, than issue the pkg command, it does work, as best 
> I can tell. 

This is bug #10881: "mpkg/pkg command skips destroot"
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/10881

--anders