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[William Davis]

On Dec 15, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Max Asato wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:05:16AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:25, Joshua Root wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like you don't have the same Portfile on both machines. Have  
>>> you
>>> synced them both lately? What does 'port info glib2' say on each? I
>>> suspect you'll find that they have a different version/revision.
>>
>> I added the darwin_8 (and darwin_7) sections to the glib2 Portfile in
>> r42796 on November 30, 2008, because without them, the port would not
>> compile on MacPorts 1.6.0. I had not noticed this before because I
>> usually run MacPorts from trunk. I did not increase the version or
>> revision of the port because either the port had already built
>> successfully for you (because you were running MacPorts from trunk;
>> no need to force you to rebuild) or else the port did not build for
>> you (because you were running MacPorts 1.6.0; after this change, now
>> it will build for you).
>>
>> So as Joshua said, you need to "sudo port sync" on both machines to
>> get the same ports trees.
>
> Sorry about the delay in responding... long weekend for me.
>
> You were right about the portfile.  I did the installs a day or two
> apart.  The binary installations worked after doing a "port sync".
>
> I suppose that this does leave the door open for a shared repository
> of binary archives but I don't think that I can get away with a world
> writable shared directory.  Are there any features in 1.7 that would
> permit a read-only archive directory?
>
> -Max
>

see man 5 macport.conf
portarchivepath
          Location where to store/retrieve ports binary archive files  
from when archive mode is active.
          Default: ${portdbpath}/packages
This variable can be set in each users macport.conf file to point to  
some network readonly dir as far as I know.

William Davis
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