MacPorts 2.0.0-rc1 now available for testing

[Dominik Reichardt]

Thanks, will look into installing from source ... or wait a few days, after all Lion is supposed to come out in July :)

Dom

> Developers with access to Lion seeds should install from source. A dmg
> for Lion will be made available after Lion is released.
> 
> - Josh
> 
> On 2011-7-19, Dominik Reichardt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> What is recommended for Lion? I'm switched through the developer program and the previously installed ports work fine but "port upgrade outdated" doesn't work fine. Didn't expect it to, I know I need to rebuild anyway. Just thought I'd wait for MacPorts 2.0, especially since there isn't a designated Lion download.
>> So is it recommended to switch via the SL build of MacPorts 2.0 rc1 or wait a bit longer (which isn't a problem right now)?
>> 
>> Take care
>> 
>> Dom
>> 
>> 
>>> Source code and disk images for MacPorts 2.0.0-rc1 are now
>>> available [1]. Testing of either of these install methods is helpful.
>>> 
>>> While there are no known regressions from 1.9.2 at this point, be
>>> prepared to encounter bugs. As always, having a recent backup would be
>>> wise. Please report any bugs that you find [2] (after first searching
>>> Trac [3], of course!)
>>> 
>>> If no showstopping bugs are found in the next few days, this will become
>>> the 2.0.0 release.
>>> 
>>> There are a large number of changes in this release. See the ChangeLog
>>> [4] for a list of most of them. You may like to focus your testing on
>>> the new features in that list, as well as your normal usage.
>>> 
>>> Notable changes since beta3 are:
>>> * The installer's check for the existence of the 'macports' group now
>>>  works correctly on 10.5. (#30096)
>>> * It's again possible to clean just the directories in ~/.macports by
>>>  running 'port clean' without privileges.
>>> * A few issues with fetching archives have been fixed.
>> 
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