any way to use OS 10.3.9?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 8, 2012, at 22:06, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> You can get an archive of ports from December 14, 2008, from the day MacPorts 1.7.0 was released, here:
>> 
>> https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.7.0/
>> 
>> Using that, you could install the subversion port, then you could get somewhat newer ports from the Subversion repository. For example to check out ports from the day before 1.8.0 was released:
>> 
>> svn co https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports -r '{2009-08-28}'
> 
> Getting
> <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-1.8.0-archive.tar.bz2>
> would be easier and virtually the same (compatible with 1.7.1), since
> the archive tarballs are generated just before the corresponding base
> version is released.

Good point!

Using a Subversion working copy would give you more control over updating individual ports to newer versions, for those where that might be possible.