On Jul 22, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
The latest development version of the MacPorts code, which may not work or may not work with the current portfiles, is:
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base/
There is no URL which always points to the latest stable released version. The latest right now is:
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_1_5_0/base/
You don't really need to get the code from out repository though. Just download and install the disk image as above. Though you can certainly build it from source if you prefer that, for some reason.
Users wanting to stay on the bleeding edge of development can either update trunk/base from svn and do the ./configure && make dance (which we would assume they know how to if they want to stay on top of development), or use rsync if they don't care about svn (a developer...? ;-). As for selfupdate, the default is to upgrade to the released code, release/base/ in rsync_dir (macports.conf). But you can also selfudpate to trunk/base by setting rsync_dir to, namely, trunk/base. Do note that if you choose this approach you'll always have to force the rebuild (-f), as selfupdate works by comparing version numbers and we're simply not upgrading the version number in trunk/base every time a commit takes place. But then again, we'd expect you to know about this sort of things if you are bold enough to use development sources ;-) Regards,... -jmpp