Manual install

[Anders F Björklund]

Simon Wheatley wrote:

> Is it possible to point MacPorts at a downloaded "package" of some  
> kind and say "install that"? Something similar to Debian's 'dpkg -i'?

Not at the moment... You can build a package (pkg/rpm/deb), but then  
it doesn't integrate with the already installed ports and registry  
and so goes "outside" or parallel to what port knows about. Or you  
can build an archive (tgz/tbz/tlz), but then you have to download and  
move it to the right directory yourself and make sure port "base" is  
already installed etc.

Preferably you would use something like 'apt-get install', and that  
would download and install the binary package ? 'port -b' is supposed  
to do that, but only works with local packages yet. There is a ticket  
to implement remote archives, but it's rather stale... http:// 
trac.macports.org/ticket/8571 and also http://trac.macports.org/ 
ticket/10919

--anders