MacPorts 1.6 still supports OS X 10.3 Panther?

[Chris Janton]

On 2008-01-03 , at 23:32 , Boey Maun Suang wrote:

> The steps to take appear below (apologies if they are more detailed  
> that
> you need); steps 1, 4, 5 and 7 are the same as the normal steps for
> installing MacPorts from source [1].

I started with a "clean" source install of MacPorts 1.5
The initial "port selfupdate" is updating to 1.6 (if I am to believe  
the messages on my screen).
Fails in the expected way - the sqllite errors

>  7. Run "./configure", "make" and "sudo make install" as normal [1].
>
>  8. If you haven't set your shell variables, do so at this point.   
> If you
> use bash, follow the guide [5].  If you use tcsh (which I believe  
> is the
> default on Panther), then running
>
>     setenv PATH /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$(PATH)
>
>     at the command line should be sufficient.
>
>  9. Run "sudo port selfupdate" as normal [6].

selfupdate done!

>
>  10. At the command line, you should now find that, when run on any
> portname (e.g. xmlcatmgr) the "port info <portname>" and "port install
> <portname>" commands fail with
>
>      Error: Unable to open port: invalid command name "ui_channels"
>
>      However, you should find that "port search <portname>" works  
> fine.
> (In general, it appears to me that the port commands that fail with
> the above message are the ones for which the "port" command attempts
> to open a Portfile.)

Yes. That is exactly what I see now.

Next steps?

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