1.7.0 beta 1 tagged and ready to test

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:35:12AM +1100, Joshua Root said:
> Anders F Björklund wrote:
> > Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> > 
> >> So everyone test it out, and be sure to have a look at the long list of
> >> changes [4] since 1.6.0, as there are quite a few...
> > 
> > I got this error while doing "port destroot" on a release_1_7 tarball:
> > 
> > error renaming "/opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf" to
> > "/opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf.mpsaved": file already exists
> >     while executing
> > "file rename ${sourcesConf} "${sourcesConf}.mpsaved""
> > 
> > It's wrong on several levels, since it does things outside of destroot ?
> 
> Right, I guess we need a different makefile target that will install
> without doing all the upgrade stuff.

That script should really be running against DESTDIR, since it'll be a noop
against a new sources.conf.  But then it still does need to be run in
postflight.  Does the same go for dep_map_clean.tcl?

Bryan


> 
> Fixed the rename failure in r42683.
> 
> - Josh