Distributing binaries in macports

Peng Yu pengyu.ut at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 10:15:09 PST 2012


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> MacPorts will download pre-built binaries if they're available (e.g.,
>> they're built, the license permits binary distribution).
>
> I just installed ImageMagick. It seems that macports compiled it
> rather download the binary directly. I think that IM's license should
> allow compilation to binary.
>
>> If you never see attempts made to fetch from packages.macports.org, you
>> might want to check your macports.conf to ensure none of the
>> archive-related settings are being set to something outside of the
>> defaults.
>
> I have never changed anything in macports.conf. What I'm suppose to
> look for in this file?
>
> My OS is 10.6.8.

Hi Chris,

I just realize that I didn't send this to the mailing list. Here is my OS info.

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Regards,
Peng


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