1.7.0 beta 1 tagged and ready to test

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Nov 29 13:20:34 PST 2008


Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:35:12AM +1100, Joshua Root said:
>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>>> Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>>>
>>>> So everyone test it out, and be sure to have a look at the long list of
>>>> changes [4] since 1.6.0, as there are quite a few...
>>> I got this error while doing "port destroot" on a release_1_7 tarball:
>>>
>>> error renaming "/opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf" to
>>> "/opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf.mpsaved": file already exists
>>>     while executing
>>> "file rename ${sourcesConf} "${sourcesConf}.mpsaved""
>>>
>>> It's wrong on several levels, since it does things outside of destroot ?
>> Right, I guess we need a different makefile target that will install
>> without doing all the upgrade stuff.
> 
> That script should really be running against DESTDIR, since it'll be a noop
> against a new sources.conf.  But then it still does need to be run in
> postflight.  Does the same go for dep_map_clean.tcl?

Yes, it's similarly useless to fix the dep_map in the MP install that is
building the package.

- Josh


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