Fwd: Simple way to install binary archives?

[Michael Klein]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> 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?

That seems to be the case:

[root] fossekall:/opt/local/var/macports/software # tar tjvf expat/expat-2.0.1_1.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo     24596 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/bin/xmlwf
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/include/
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo     40339 2011-08-10 12:27:48 opt/local/include/expat.h
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      3364 2011-08-10 12:27:48 opt/local/include/expat_external.h
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/lib/
lrwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/lib/libexpat.0.dylib -> libexpat.1.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo    150560 2011-08-10 12:27:48 opt/local/lib/libexpat.1.5.2.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/lib/libexpat.1.dylib -> libexpat.1.5.2.dylib
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo    233760 2011-08-10 12:27:48 opt/local/lib/libexpat.a
lrwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/lib/libexpat.dylib -> libexpat.1.5.2.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo       828 2011-08-10 12:27:48 opt/local/lib/libexpat.la
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/share/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/share/doc/expat/
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      9204 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/Changes
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      1208 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/COPYING
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      1027 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/expat.png
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo     92697 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/reference.html
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      1340 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/style.css
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      2368 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/valid-xhtml10.png
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      7895 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/xmlwf.1
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo     13884 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/xmlwf.sgml
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      5701 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/doc/expat/README
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/share/examples/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/share/examples/expat/
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      1617 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/examples/expat/elements.c
-rw-r--r-- mapo/mapo      2415 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/examples/expat/outline.c
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/share/man/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2011-08-10 12:27:50 opt/local/share/man/man1/
-r--r--r-- mapo/mapo      3437 2011-08-10 12:27:49 opt/local/share/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz

[root] fossekall:/opt/local/var/macports/software # tar tjvf expat/expat-2.1.0_0.darwin_9.ppc.tbz2 
drwxr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel       28 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./+COMMENT
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel     1800 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./+CONTENTS
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel      222 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./+DESC
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel     1600 2012-04-12 20:45:27 ./+PORTFILE
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel      235 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./+STATE
drwxr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/mapo     24596 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/bin/xmlwf
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/include/
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo     41752 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/include/expat.h
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      3364 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/include/expat_external.h
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/lib/
-rwxr-xr-x root/mapo    150744 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/lib/libexpat.1.dylib
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo    234936 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/lib/libexpat.a
lrwxr-xr-x root/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/lib/libexpat.dylib -> libexpat.1.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x root/mapo       951 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/lib/libexpat.la
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo       232 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/expat.pc
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo     11379 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/Changes
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      1208 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/COPYING
drwxr-xr-x root/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      1027 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/expat.png
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo     94947 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/reference.html
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      1340 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/style.css
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      2368 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/valid-xhtml10.png
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      7895 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/xmlwf.1
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo     13690 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/html/xmlwf.sgml
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      5790 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/doc/expat/README
drwxr-xr-x root/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/examples/
drwxr-xr-x root/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/examples/expat/
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      1617 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/examples/expat/elements.c
-rw-r--r-- root/mapo      2415 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/examples/expat/outline.c
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/man/
drwxr-xr-x mapo/mapo         0 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/man/man1/
-r--r--r-- root/mapo      3437 2012-04-12 20:50:14 ./opt/local/share/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz