Problem with case-(in)sensitivity

Bradley Giesbrecht pixilla at macports.org
Fri Oct 17 16:57:16 PDT 2014


On Oct 17, 2014, at 4:50 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday October 17 2014 17:15:56 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> When installing from source, port creates a tarball from ${destroot} and then installs from that rather than downloading the equivalent tarball from a mirror, no?
>> 
>> Yes, when installing from source, no binary is downloaded from packages.macports.org; it's built from source locally on your machine instead.
> 
> Not exactly what I meant. What I meant is, does building from source create a binary package as an intermediate step, such that the actual install (and de/activation procedure) can be done regardless where the package came from?

Yes.
ls /opt/local/var/macports/software


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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