1.7.0 release candidate 1 available for testing

[William Davis]

On Dec 7, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

> William Davis wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, looks like the attachment was scrubbed in the archives, so  
>>> here's a
>>> link to the announcement on -dev:
>>>
>>> <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-December/006614.html 
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> - Josh
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>>
>> just this so far:
>>
>> (from selfupdate)
>> MacPorts base version 1.700 installed
>> DEBUG: Rebuilding and reinstalling MacPorts if needed
>> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600
>>
>> The MacPorts installation is not outdated so it was not updated
>> DEBUG: Setting MacPorts sources ownership to root
>>
>> note typo in "Downloaded MacPorts base version" message
>
> Sorry if I'm being thick, but what typo? If you're referring to the  
> fact
> that it says it downloaded 1.600, that's actually correct. The sources
> on the rsync server are still 1.6 because 1.7 final hasn't been  
> released
> yet.
>
> - Josh

neat! ok, then.   1.7 is looking very good, so much so that I have re- 
installed gnome.  For me, the acid test will be upgrading some basic  
gnome component and using the -R option.  Thanks to everyone for all  
the hard work!

William Davis
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