Trouble updating my ports, how to fix this?

[Peer Stritzinger]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

These are ancient issues; sounds like you had not updated your MacPorts
> installation in several years.


True ... once you get behind far enough updating is a bigger issue and tends
to be postponed further, making it even worse.


> Dozens of updates are committed daily, so you should strive to receive
> those updates on a regular basis. Consider updating at least monthly. You
> should not wait longer than one year to update MacPorts; ports are sometimes
> renamed or rearranged in a way that requires compatibility code be inserted
> into a port -- compatibility code we typically remove after about a year
> since we assume everyone will have updated during that time.
>

Makes perfect sense, and I'm glad the macports on this machine are current
again, I'll keep it that way from now.

Thanks again & Cheers
-- Peer
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