How to seamlessly switch from a standard MacPorts install to trunk?

[Joshua Root]

On 2014-2-17 18:21 , MK-MacPorts at techno.ms wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> On 17 Feb 2014, at 07:35 , Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>> You don't have to sync your ports tree with svn just because you're
>> using the trunk version of base.
> Oh, I see!
> :)
> 
> That means I misunderstood Clemens’ statement:
> 
> On 10 Feb 2014, at 12:01 , Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
>> … Note that selfupdate will no longer do anything once you installed trunk. If you want to update your MacPorts installation you need to svn up your working copy of trunk and run the install process again.
> 
> So, he was only referring to macports base and NOT the whole MacPorts installation then.

Right, selfupdate will do *something* (it will sync), but it won't
update base until the version number is higher.

- Josh