Different installed and downloaded MacPorts base versions

[Roberto Avanzi]

Thank you for your response.
Today I saw some updated packages as well and watched the new progress bar in action: cool!

 Roberto

On 13 May 2014, at 00:57, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> 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.
>