Using MacPorts "Offline"

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 29, 2018, at 18:15, Jepeway, Chris wrote:

> I'm looking to use & build ports offline, without any direct internet access.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> I've got a recent install of MacPorts via the v2.4.2 disk image.
> 
> I've got a copy of ports.tar.
> 
> I've got an rsync'ed set of distfiles obtained on an online system that I've copied to the MacBook that won't have access to the internet.

The distfiles would go in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles.

If you're wanting to copy our entire collection of distfiles from rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/distfiles, note that it is not current for all ports, because of:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53347

I hope I can work on resolving that soon.


> I've got the command-line development tools.
> 
> Eventually, I'll have a copy of Xcode.
> 
> What sort of config do I need?
> 
> This is the last line of sources.conf:
> 
> 	file:///Users/chrjep2/share/macports/ports.tar [default] [nosync]
> 
> When I try a simple test like:
> 
> 	sudo port version
> 
> I get this:
> 
> 	Warning: /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf specifies invalid source 'file:///Users/chrjep2/share/macports/ports.tar [default] [nosync]', ignored.
> 	No sources defined in /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
> 	    while executing "mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
> 	Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, No sources defined in /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
> 
> FWIW, the tarball seems OK:
> 
> 	nickel% sudo tar tvf /Users/chrjep2/share/macports/ports.tar | head
> 	drwxr-xr-x  0 buildbot buildbot    0 Dec 17 11:41 ports/
> 	-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot  234 Aug 22 17:13 ports/.gitattributes
> 	drwxr-xr-x  0 buildbot buildbot    0 Nov  5 10:54 ports/.github/
> 	-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot   38 Aug 22 17:13 ports/.gitignore
> 	-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot 1273 Aug 22 17:13 ports/.mailmap
> 	-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot  189 Oct 30 22:14 ports/.travis.yml
> 	-rw-r--r--  0 buildbot buildbot 1996 Aug 22 17:13 ports/LICENSE
> 	drwxr-xr-x  0 buildbot buildbot    0 Jan 17 04:01 ports/PortIndex_darwin_10_i386/
> 	drwxr-xr-x  0 buildbot buildbot    0 Jan 17 04:01 ports/PortIndex_darwin_11_i386/
> 	drwxr-xr-x  0 buildbot buildbot    0 Jan 17 04:01 ports/PortIndex_darwin_12_i386/

I guess a file path to a tarball is not valid in sources.conf.

You could untar the tarball and point sources.conf at the resulting directory.