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 restric-
         tions 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}/soft-
         ware/${portname}' and only one can be "activated" onto '${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

         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 ar-
         chives 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 (infrastruc-
         ture) 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 ${pre-
                    fix}/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>

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