manually downloaded sources

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 07:05, Сергей Карелин wrote:

> How to port manually downloaded source tar-balls? It seems to be  
> very simple but I can't find out any information on this.
>

You can place downloaded tarballs into ${prefix}/var/macports/ 
distfiles/${name} where ${prefix} is usually /opt/local and ${name}  
is the name of the port you're trying to install.

> And something else. Installing from MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg without  
> running internet connection result in error. This makes some  
> inconvenience, because user have to define environment paths manually.
>

The installer tries to run a selfupdate. This requires an Internet  
connection. I believe this has already been changed in trunk to no  
longer be a fatal error. We just haven't had another release of  
MacPorts since then.

There is a bug in the 1.6.0 installer where the paths do not get set  
up correctly in your environment so you must do it manually. This has  
already been fixed in trunk.