Check for binaries

[Ken Cunningham]

you can specify in your macports.conf, or on the command line for one-offs, that you only want to install binaries.

sudo port -b install my-big-port

will install the binary if it exists, or abort.


Ken



On 2017-03-28, at 1:34 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:

> Is there any way to check if a specific port will be installed as a binary or built from source.  I’m looking for a flag that would just check if a binary is available for my particular configuration?  I’m looking for something similar to “dry run”  (-y).  I did try -y on the hopes that it would show what would try to download, but even with -v it doesn’t show that level of detail.  
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> Thanks,
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> --Adam
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