virgin install from CVS or tarfile doesn't build dports directory and portindex

[willray@…]

Installing on a virgin system, --with-dports-dir=<directory> can't work, because there's no PortIndex file installed at that location. Without this, it looks like it tries to build a path for the dports directory from a path that exists only if you use the CVS installer (/base/ isn't in the tarfile version), and then doesn't appear to populate it anyway. /opt/local/etc/ports/sources.conf doesn't get populated with the directory you specify, regardless.

[jberry@…]

Can you please be more specific about what steps you attempted to take, and what the result was?

[jmpp@…]

As of the 1.0 release, DarwinPorts defaults to rsync fetching for both new sources and the ports, through the "selfupdate" and "sync" targets respectively. These are properly documented in the port(1) man page. The deafult setting of both the ports.conf and sources.conf files reflect these new practices.

If you have needs particular enough to warrant a customized "--with-dports-dir" flag at configuration time, you should manually point your installation to that location in the sources.conf file.

Other than that, I don't see how this is a bug, so I'm closing it.

-jmpp