View the most recent changes for the xar port at: xar.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for xar.
The raw portfile for xar 1.5.2 is located here:
http://xar.darwinports.com/dports/archivers/xar/Portfile
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The xar Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: xar
Version: 1.5.2
Category: archivers sysutils
Platform: darwin
Description: xar is the eXtensible ARchiver
Maintainers: mww
Long Description: ${description}
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/xar/
Master Sites: http://xar.googlecode.com/files/
Checksums: sha1 eb411a92167387aa5d06a81970f7e929ec3087c9

depends_lib port:bzip2 port:libiconv port:libxml2 port:openssl port:zlib

configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-libz=${prefix} --with-libbzip2=${prefix} --with-libcrypto=${prefix} --with-xml2-config=${prefix}/bin/xml2-config

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url http://code.google.com/p/xar/downloads/list?can=2&q=&sort=-uploaded
livecheck.regex files/xar-(\[0-9\.\]+).tar.gz

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

--->  Staging xar into destroot

--->  Installing xar

- 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 xar with these commands:

%  man xar
%  apropos xar
%  which xar
%  locate xar

 Where to find more information: