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The raw portfile for smartmontools 5.38 is located here:
http://smartmontools.darwinports.com/dports/sysutils/smartmontools/Portfile
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The smartmontools Portfile 57883 2009-09-18 02:35:51Z toby macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: smartmontools
Version: 5.38
Revision: 1
Category: sysutils
Maintainers: toby
Description: SMART hard drive monitoring
Long Description: Two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.
Homepage: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Platform: darwin
license GPLv2
Master Sites: sourceforge
Checksums: md5 a282846532ecbd6b4a28072373b3a70b sha1 90e36f46af7a35336c63868176aa71deef4c9e66 rmd160 6fcca6e18b14a14b579e8484c769f36b3ce238ea
configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --enable-sample

platform darwin {
post-destroot {
file delete -force ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/rc.d

set launchd_path ${destroot}/Library/LaunchDaemons
set launchd_plist net.sourceforge.smartmontools.smartd.plist

xinstall -d ${launchd_path}
xinstall ${filespath}/${launchd_plist} ${launchd_path}
reinplace s|__PREFIX__|${prefix}| ${launchd_path}/${launchd_plist}
}
}

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/smartmontools
%  sudo port install smartmontools  
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 smartmontools
--->  Verifying checksum for smartmontools
--->  Extracting smartmontools
--->  Configuring smartmontools
--->  Building smartmontools with target all

--->  Staging smartmontools into destroot

--->  Installing smartmontools

- 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 smartmontools with these commands:

%  man smartmontools
%  apropos smartmontools
%  which smartmontools
%  locate smartmontools

 Where to find more information: