How to install git-core 1.7.9.2 instead of 1.7.7

seron mirimiri66 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 04:21:39 PST 2012


Thanks. I had forgotten that I had a local port of git, which I had modified
to pull in perl 5.14 instead 5.12 so that I didn't have to have two
different versions of perl installed. I wonder why git is not dependant on
perl 5.14 in the first place. There's probably a reason.


Brandon Allbery wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:41, seron <mirimiri66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> port tells me that there are two different versions of git available, but
>> when I try to install the newer version the older one gets installed
>> instead. It looks like this:
>>
>> --------------------------
>>
>> $ port search git-core
>> git-core @1.7.7 (devel)
>>    A fast version control system (perl5.14 modified)
>>
>> git-core @1.7.9.2 (devel)
>>    A fast version control system
>>
> 
> You have the same port in the standard ports and in a personal ports
> repository.  The former is being installed.  Per the comment in
> /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf.default, you may want to move your
> local repository before the standard one in sources.conf.
> 
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