how to start with macports ?

[Salvatore Domenick Desiano]

o I kniow it is onfusing that the latest has no dmg but this will be
o corrected I'm sure in the next release. The instructions could probably be

If you have a lag on your dmg releases, you may just want to include 
"DarwinPorts-latest.dmg" link and reference that in the installation 
instructions.

-- Sal
smile.



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  Salvatore Domenick Desiano
    Doctoral Candidate
      Robotics Institute
        Carnegie Mellon University

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Mark Duling wrote:

o "Dan Stowell" <danstowell at gmail.com> on Monday, January 15, 2007 at 5:11
o AM -0800 wrote:
o >> Try here:
o >>
o >> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/InstallingMacPorts
o >
o >Step 4 is slightly wrong - there are no ".dmg" downloads.
o >DarwinPorts-1.3.2.tar.bz2 or DarwinPorts-1.3.2.tar.gz is the file to
o >download.
o 
o The latest dmg's are for 1.3.1: 
o http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/downloads/DarwinPorts-1.3.1/
o 
o In step 5 it says:
o 
o Note: The selfupdate command also updates the MacPorts program to the
o latest point release since the binary installer was created.
o 
o improved bu tthe real fix is to release a new dmg and maybe even to chane
o the download area directory tree if dmg's are likely to lag tarballs at
o some point again in the future so people can see the dmg in the same
o directory as the latest tarball.
o 
o Mark
o 
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