how to start with macports ?

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Jul 22, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> The latest development version of the MacPorts code, which may not  
> work or may not work with the current portfiles, is:
>
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base/
>
> There is no URL which always points to the latest stable released  
> version. The latest right now is:
>
> http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_1_5_0/base/
>
> You don't really need to get the code from out repository though.  
> Just download and install the disk image as above. Though you can  
> certainly build it from source if you prefer that, for some reason.



	Users wanting to stay on the bleeding edge of development can either  
update trunk/base from svn and do the ./configure && make dance  
(which we would assume they know how to if they want to stay on top  
of development), or use rsync if they don't care about svn (a  
developer...? ;-).

	As for selfupdate, the default is to upgrade to the released code,  
release/base/ in rsync_dir (macports.conf). But you can also  
selfudpate to trunk/base by setting rsync_dir to, namely, trunk/base.  
Do note that if you choose this approach you'll always have to force  
the rebuild (-f), as selfupdate works by comparing version numbers  
and we're simply not upgrading the version number in trunk/base every  
time a commit takes place. But then again, we'd expect you to know  
about this sort of things if you are bold enough to use development  
sources ;-)

	Regards,...


-jmpp