ports install but not from source (no distfiles)

[Tabitha McNerney]

Thank you very much for the informative update. I hadn't seen the news
until just now after reading your messag. It looks like this has to do with
the great news about MaxCDN announced on March 13th 2016. No wonder
everything seemed faster (it was a bit disorienting to a MacPorts long
timer like me). Its great to see MacPorts is thriving. That said, we must
be ever more vigilant about our Macs and iOS machines, including MacPorts
security, given the nefarious world we live in (including, regrettably, the
so-called "friendly fire").

Thanks,

-T


On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Tabitha McNerney <tabithamc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a Mac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. I made and installed MacPorts
>> 2.3.3 from source on this machine (with Xcode 7.2.1). All seems well (I've
>> been using MacPorts for many years).
>>
>> After sudo port selfupdate runs successfully, when I attempt to install a
>> new port with the proverbial "port install xyz" where xyz is the name of
>> the port, the port installs fine but the port's distfile does not show up
>> in the expected location. Take ncurses for example, for my standard
>> configuration (where the prefix is /opt/local) I should see both:
>>
>
> MacPorts has had the ability to install prebuilt packages when a port has
> a compatible license and is requested with default variants for many years.
> It's only relatively recently that we've had the ability to *build* those
> packages, though (buildbot infrastructure and storage). If you watch the
> install closely, you'll see it trying to download a prebuilt package before
> downloading distfiles and building locally.
>
> If you need to have things only built locally, you can use the -s option
> or modify the "buildfromsource" option
> in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf. (If you've been using a MacPorts
> installation on that machine for a long time, you may want to review that
> file against /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf.default to see what
> options have been added and maybe change their defaults if needed.)
>
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