Simple way to install binary archives?

Michael Klein michael.klein at puffin.lb.shuttle.de
Fri Apr 13 11:29:35 PDT 2012


On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Apr 12, 2012, at 15:05, Michael Klein wrote:
>
>> "port install" indeed picks up the archive, but can't find the +CONTENTS file due to a leading "./" path component:
>>
>> $ sudo port -v install subversion --->  Computing dependencies for subversion.
>> --->  Installing subversion @1.7.4_0+no_bdb
>> Error: Target org.macports.install returned: /usr/bin/tar: +CONTENTS: Not found in archive
>> /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> Is that (leading ./ path component) really what it's due to?

Yes.  After I manually re-packed the archive without the leading ./, the 
installation went well.



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