Port Verification

[Rainer Müller]

Michael Franz wrote:
> Is there an easy way to validate ports?  The way I have been doing it
> is very labor intensive (uninstall macports, remove all ports,
> re-install macports, test port).  It would be nice if there was a way
> to run in a chroot environment for development testing of ports.

Try port -t which enables tracemode. In this tracemode accesses to 
non-referenced files are prohibited.

But currently it still faces problems if some port is using e.g. 
/opt/local/bin/grep when it does not contain an explicit reference to it.

Rainer