Check for binaries

[Adam Dershowitz]

So, I guess I could do that, and then cancel if it starts to download.  That’s a bit of a work around, but should do the job.

--Adam



> On Mar 28, 2017, at 4:48 PM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> you can specify in your macports.conf, or on the command line for one-offs, that you only want to install binaries.
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> sudo port -b install my-big-port
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> will install the binary if it exists, or abort.
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> Ken
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> On 2017-03-28, at 1:34 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
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>> 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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