Fwd: Simple way to install binary archives?

[Ryan Schmidt]

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> From: Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org>
> Date: April 12, 2012 20:17:03 CDT
> To: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> Subject: Re: Simple way to install binary archives?
> 
>> Is that (leading ./ path component) really what it's due to? We've had some other reports of "+CONTENTS: Not found in archive" (search issue tracker) that we weren't able to figure out, aside from assuming the user got a corrupted download somehow.
> 
> I think the older archives didn't have the metadata files (+PORTFILE, +CONTENTS, etc). Do you have any from before images-and-archives was merged?