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[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:54, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:39, Taka Fukuda <fukuda at computer.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Could someone give me advice on how to access the latest list?
>> 
>> When was the last time that you ran "port selfupdate" ?
> 
> I've been wondering this for a while. Could a selfupdate version file be kept on a few mirrors? Then with a little checking code, MacPorts could run a pre selfupdate check prior to any users "port" command. 
> 
> Your port tree/version is out of date, you may want to run "port selfupdate'". 

MacPorts already prints this warning when appropriate:

"port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate"


See:

http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_1_8_2/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl#L784