Please clear up DarwinPort/MacPorts confusion

[Jaroslav Hron]

This seems to be the problem: in port.conf

# Rsync directory from which to pull the base/ component  
(infrastructure) of DP
rsync_dir			dpupdate1/base/

when the rsync_dir is set to dpupdate1/base/
then port selfupdates to the version 1.4

while setting dpupdate/base/ results
port slefupdate to version 1.5

I have probably removed the 1 there at some point and since it
worked I didn't bother to put it back....

This could be made clear by using something like
dpupdate_stable/base or dpupdate_release/base
and dpupdate_dev/base....

Thanks for clearing this up, J.


On Apr 9, 2007, at 11:03 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2007, at 14:34, Jaroslav Hron wrote:
>
>> On Apr 7, 2007, at 18:46 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 7, 2007, at 11:18, Jaroslav Hron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why is my port instalation saying:
>>>>
>>>> port version
>>>> Version: 1.500
>>>>
>>>> Am I living on some bleeding edge developement version without  
>>>> knowing it?
>>>>
>>>> My settings in port.conf are:
>>>>
>>>> rsync_server            rsync.macports.org
>>>> rsync_dir                       dpupdate/base/
>>>
>>> Yes, apparently... how did you install?
>>
>> Well - I made the instalation over 1 year ago, something like  
>> version 1.3
>>
>> Since then I just selfupdate and upgrade those 5 ports I use (tex,  
>> emacs, gcc,...)
>>
>> Last time I changed anything was the change to the macports.org  
>> servers.
>> I remeber there were some problems but after few tests it
>> worked and since then just by selfupdating it went to 1.5 by  
>> itself...
>
> Weird. I was unaware that there was ever a time when a port  
> selfupdate downloaded version 1.5. My understanding was that that  
> should not have been the case. I myself haven't used selfupdate in  
> quite a while (I'm updating manually) so I can't say for sure  
> what's up. Anyone who works in base want to comment on whether or  
> how this would be possible?
>
>> Is there some setting somwhere to choose between release and  
>> developer version?
>
> Presumably that would be the rsync_dir parameter you mentioned  
> above. I believe the defaults are [1]:
>
>
> # Rsync server to use
> rsync_server		rsync.darwinports.org
>
> # Rsync directory from which to pull the base/ component  
> (infrastructure) of DP
> rsync_dir			dpupdate1/base/
>
>
> rsync.macports.org and rsync.darwinports.org both point to the same  
> IP, so that shouldn't be relevant. But I don't know what the  
> difference is between dpupdate and dpupdate1.
>
>
> [1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/base/ 
> doc/ports.conf.in
>