PORTS.CONF(5)

NAME
ports.conf - Configuration file of the DarwinPorts system

DESCRIPTION
ports.conf is the configuration file used to bootstrap the DarwinPorts system. This file is read by the port command and determines how it behaves. Lines beginning with '#' are comments, empty lines are ignored. The format is that of a simple key/value space or tab separated pair.

The file contains entries of the form:

    <key> <value>

The value of any given key can be referred to by the '${<keyname>}' abstraction, where <keyname> expands to the key in question.

KEYS
The following keys are used by port itself:

prefix
    Sets the directory where ports are installed. Any path may be used but those with spaces and/or non ascii characters should be avoided, as this can broke some ports. This key is often referred to as '${prefix}'.
    Default: /opt/local

portdbpath
    Directory where DarwinPorts keeps working data as downloaded sources, installed ports receipts and the main registry. Same path restrictions apply as for '${prefix}'.
    Default: ${prefix}/var/db/dports

portdbformat
    Storage type to use for the DarwinPorts registry. Currently the only supportted format is "flat".
    Default: flat

portinstalltype
    Sets the mode in which ports are installed by DarwinPorts. Supported values are 'direct' or 'image'. The 'direct' mode is often used on systems that do not support 'image' due to limitations in their installed version of TCL. In 'direct' more ports are installed directly into '${prefix}' and only one flavor of a port can be installed at any given time. In 'image' mode multiple flavors of a port (i.e., different versions and/or any possible combination of its variants) can be installed concurrently into '${portdbpath}/software/${portname}' and only one can be "activated" onto '${prefix}' via soft or hard links from the former to the latter.
    Default: image

    NOTE. Mac OS X 10.2 and Darwin 6.x users should switch to 'direct' mode to have DarwinPorts working properly on their systems.

x11prefix
    Path containing an X11 installation on your system.
    Default: /usr/X11R6

sources_conf
    Location of the sources file. This file enables rsync synchronization of the default dports tree with the OpenDarwin rsync server (through the "sync" target of the port commnand) and any other local tree(s) you might have.
    Default: ${prefix}/etc/ports/sources.conf

variants_conf
    Location of the optional global variants definition file, listing those that should be used in all installed ports if available.
    Default: ${prefix}/etc/ports/variants.conf

portarchivemode
    Key governing the creation of binary archives of installed ports for installation/reinstallation ease.
    Default: yes

portarchivepath
    Location where to store/retrieve ports binary archive files from when archive mode is active.
    Default: ${prefix}/var/db/dports/packages

portarchivetype
    Colon or comma separated, space free list of supported formats of archives to create or read from when '${archivemode}' is set to 'yes'. Use of multiple types will cause archive creation to build all the specified types in one step. Unarchive uses multiple types as a search list to locate any existing archive, with the first found match being used.
    Supported types are: tgz, tar, tbz2, xar, zip, cpgz, cpio
    Default: tgz

portautoclean
    Automatic cleaning of the build directory of a given port after it has been installed.
    Default: yes

rsync_server
    Default rsync server to connect to when running "selfupdate" through the port command to update your entire DarwinPorts installation (spanning both the Darwinports infrastucture and the dports tree).
    Default: rsync.opendarwin.org

rsync_dir
    Rsync directory from which to pull the base/ component (infrastructure) of the DarwinPorts system off of the default rsync server.
    Default: dpupdate1/base/ (to pull in the sources from the shipping "release1" branch off of the OpenDarwin rsync server)

rsync_options
    Default rsync options to use when connecting to the rsync server.
    Default: -rtzv --delete --delete-after

FILES

~/.portsrc
    User configuration file for the DarwinPorts system. This file overrides values listed in the default ${prefix}/etc/port/ports.conf' one.

SEE ALSO
port(1), portfile(7), portgroup(7), portstyle(7) porthier(7),

AUTHORS
Matt Anton <matt@opendarwin.org> Juan Manuel Palacios <jmpp@opendarwin.org>