binary rpm repos?

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Mar 8, 2009, at 17:00, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
>
>> The dependency does not need to be in the package, it is already in  
>> the
>> Portfiles. macports does not need a new (or borrowed) binary package
>> format,
>
> Agreed.
>
>> it already builds binary packages and prefers them over
>> building from source when they exist: just have a look
>> in /opt/local/var/macports/packages/$system/$arch. And we even don't
>> need a new option for specifying if we want to install from source or
>> from binary, the switch already exists (-b).
>
> I thought an additional problem was that software installed from a  
> binary does not get registered in the registry.

The port dmg approach sounds attractive for binary distribution.

Absent a macports build farm what would be the process for submitting  
binaries?


//Brad