This is a full weekly mirror of the main Darwin Ports repository at: darwinports.opendarwin.org
Navigate this site by choosing a category on the right, and then selecting a portfile.

How To Install Darwin Ports:

This is a two-step process and is easy to get working. The first step is to download and run the Darwin Ports installer located here: download.darwinports.com. The second step is to update the ports so that they are current on your Mac. To do this, open a terminal window and check the project out of the CVS repository with the following command and enter the root password when prompted:

% sudo port -d selfupdate 
Password: 

You are encouraged to print and read the Darwin Ports README file.
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NOTES ON DARWINPORTS VERSION 1
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The major changes that was implemented for the release of DarwinPorts
version 1 were:

- Rsync support.
- Selfupdate of the DarwinPorts infrastructure.
- Include a versioning of the infrastructure.
- New location of Portfiles, base and work directories.
- Change in distribution method.


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Rsync support
-------------

Rsync has replaced CVS as the primary way of getting and updating
the DarwinPorts system. Both the base and the Portfiles are available
from rsync://rsync.opendarwin.org/. The rsync server provides both
the release1 (right now only base), and HEAD. The following paths
could be of interest to the users:

rsync://rsync.opendarwin.org/
|
| -- base (base system)
|-- dpupdate (HEAD) --
| -- dports (portfiles description)
|
|-- dpupdate1 (Release1) -- base

You can change the default settings of the rsync behaviour in the
two following configuration files:

sources.conf
This is where you set the location of the portfiles.
The default is
rsync://rsync.opendarwin.org/dpupdate/dports

ports.conf
This is where you set the location of the DarwinPorts
base system.

The default is:

# Rsync server to use
rsync_server rsync.opendarwin.org
# Rsync directory
rsync_dir dpupdate1/base/
# Rsync options
rsync_options "-rtzv --delete --delete-after"


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Selfupdate of the DarwinPorts infrastructure
--------------------------------------------

Selfupdate does two things:

1)
Sync the Portfiles using the darwinports::sync
(if an rsync server is in sources.conf it will fetch
these from the server)

2)
Sync the base-system from the rsync server provided
in ports.conf.

If a newer version of DarwinPorts is available it
will the build and installed, using the same
parameters as when you initially installed DarwinPorts.


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Versioning of the DarwinPorts infrastructure
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At installtime DarwinPorts installs a file called dp_version in
${prefix}/etc/ports, this file tells what version of the DarwinPorts
system is installed, this only applies to the base system.

It is ofcourse recommended *not* to edit this file manually, the
DarwinPorts system takes care of this for you. If you wish to know
what version you are using you can run:

port version

The version number is a plain decimal number, like:

1.001

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New location of Portfiles, base and work directories
----------------------------------------------------

There was introduced a new directory to hold the sources of base
and portfiles in DarwinPorts release 1.

${prefix}/var/db/dports/sources/

In this directory there is a subdirectory that holds the sources
for the base system and a subdirectory what holds the portfiles
hieracy.

As default it looks like this:

/opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/
|
|
|-- rsync.rsync.opendarwin.org_dpupdate1 (Base system)
|
|-- rsync.rsync.opendarwin.org_dpupdate_dports (port hieracy)

The work directory is nolonger placed in the porttree, as it used
to be, insted it is located in the directory:

${prefix}/var/db/dports/build

To emulate the behaviour of earlier darwinports systems there is a
softlink in the porttree to the location of the build.

For example in the glib2 location in the porttree there is the
following link:

work -> /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/
file._opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.
opendarwin.org_dpupdate_dports_devel_glib2/work

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Change in distribution method
-----------------------------

The DarwinPorts system version 1 will be provided as a tarball
containing only the base system.

To get the portfiles and update the system you can use one of the
two targets:

selfupdate, which updates both base and portfiles.

sync, which updates the portfiles.

Users that for some reason cannot use rsync is forced to use the
"old" way of using DarwinPorts with CVS.

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/
%  sudo port install   
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching 
--->  Verifying checksum for 
--->  Extracting 
--->  Configuring 
--->  Building  with target all

--->  Staging  into destroot

--->  Installing 

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using with these commands:

%  man 
%  apropos 
%  which 
%  locate 

 Where to find more information: