Manual install

[Robert Liesenfeld]

On May 14, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Andrea D'Amore wrote:

>
> On 14/mag/08, at 09:59, 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'?
>
> If you're trying to avoid the need of an internet connection you  
> could just get the tarballs and put them in appropriate folders in  
> distfiles dir.

I think this is what the "port fetch portname" command does, isn't  
it?  (Possibly including verification of checksums of said distfiles.)

-R