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[Scott Haneda]

On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:54, Scott Haneda wrote:
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>> On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:44 AM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:39, Taka Fukuda <fukuda at computer.org> wrote:
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>>>> Could someone give me advice on how to access the latest list?
>>> 
>>> When was the last time that you ran "port selfupdate" ?
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>> 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. 
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>> Your port tree/version is out of date, you may want to run "port selfupdate'". 
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> MacPorts already prints this warning when appropriate:
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> "port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate"

Rad, never knew it, I guess it is force of habit for me to run it more often than every two weeks.  Good to know.
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