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[Gregory Seidman]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:09:17PM -0400, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> That's how it just works.

Well, no, it doesn't just work. I want to issue a single port command, e.g.
port upgrade outdated, and have it install binaries where available and
install anything else from source. I want to *prefer* binaries without
*restricting* to binaries.

--Greg

> Gregory Seidman <gsslist+macports at anthropohedron.net> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:12:55AM -0400, Arno Hautala wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jeremy Lavergne
> >> <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
> >> >> yes, but that would only work if a binary is available!
> >> >
> >> > Yes, but it'll do what you're after: letting you know if one is
> >available.
> >> >
> >> > You can add -p if you want it go on and do what it can from a list
> >of
> >> > ports you want to install without bailing at first error.
> >>
> >> Good idea, so say you want to install some set of ports, one of which
> >> has many deps:
> >>
> >> > port -p -b install port1 port2 port3 big-port
> >>
> >> port1 port2 go in fine, port3 isn't available as a binary and one of
> >> the deps of big-port isn't available.
> >>
> >> You can then check what's missing with:
> >>
> >> > port echo port1 port2 port3 big-port rdepof:big-port and not
> >installed
> >>
> >> You would see something like:
> >>
> >> > port3
> >> > big-port
> >> > big-port-dep1
> >>
> >> You can then install the ports that you have to manually compile when
> >> you have the processor time:
> >>
> >> > port install port3 big-port
> >
> >Is there any way to automate this? I'd really like to pass some
> >argument to
> >port to prioritize installing binaries, but still install packages from
> >source when they aren't available as binaries.
> >
> >> arno  s  hautala    /-|   arno at alum.wpi.edu
> >--Greg
> >
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