binary rpm repos?

[Joshua Root]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
>  Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
>> The only missing link is that port does not download those packages,
>> but it should not be more difficult than what 'port mirror' does for
>> distfiles! Well obviously, there is another gap: those packages
>> don't get uploaded anywhere at the moment, but you should feel free to
>> share your packages.
> 
> Sure it does, with a patch. :-)
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/8571 (3 years ago)
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/10919  (2 years)
> 
> It just hasn't been added yet...
> 
> 
> One problem with the current system is that the archives
> are sorted by OS and Arch, but not including OS version.
> That is, the binaries for Tiger and Leopard would go to
> the same file path - unless having a platform variant...
> 
> It also needs digests (e.g. SHA) and signatures (e.g GPG)
> as well as better metadata, however those are achieved ?
> You should take this up on MacPorts Dev, if you want to
> improve it. It's still stalling on the build logs, I think.

That and registry support for the extra info.

- Josh