/opt/local/macports/software

[Chris Jones]

On 20/01/15 02:37, Joshua Root wrote:
> Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>> On Jan 19, 2015, at 6:34 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What could be an option:
>>> - use xz instead of bzip2 to compact things a bit more
>>
>> this would probably be a small change (I think there's support for gzip and zip already) - but changing your local archive type means you won't get binary archives.
>
> This was true in the past, but no longer. Setting portarchivetype only
> affects the type of archives that are generated when building locally.
> Each archive site now has an associated archive type, which happens to
> be tbz2 for packages.macports.org and its mirrors.
>
> We do support building txz archives already, and they can happily
> coexist with downloaded tbz2 ones. The catch is that you have to have
> the xz port installed to install or activate any txz archives. So the
> default is not going to change unless/until Apple starts shipping xz
> with OS X.

Or... MP starts shipping xz as a requirement, such as is done with TCL. 
If using xv saves more than it takes up (almost certainly the case) it 
is something to consider.

Chris

>
> - Josh
> _______________________________________________
> macports-users mailing list
> macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
>