Different installed and downloaded MacPorts base versions

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 12, 2014, at 10:08, Roberto Avanzi wrote:

> today I installed 2.3.0rc1 (using the pkg) and when I issue the command
> 
>> sudo port selfupdate
> 
> I get the following message
> 
>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> MacPorts base version 2.3.0 installed,
>> MacPorts base version 2.2.1 downloaded.
>> --->  Updating the ports tree
>> --->  MacPorts base is probably trunk or a release candidate
> 
> 
> What does it mean that the installed and downloaded MacPorts base versions differ?
> Which one is actually used?

MacPorts 2.3.0rc1 is installed. MacPort 2.2.1 is the latest released stable version, therefore selfupdate didn't do anything to your installed base version.


> Furthermore, the previous version of Pallet I had on my computer just crashes. So I tried to remove and recompile it. But it does not compile (I attach the log file), and I do not understand why.

We have multiple open tickets about Pallet problems. Pallet is unmaintained and needs someone to spend some time and update the code to work again.