On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>wrote:
These are ancient issues; sounds like you had not updated your MacPorts > installation in several years. True ... once you get behind far enough updating is a bigger issue and tends to be postponed further, making it even worse. > Dozens of updates are committed daily, so you should strive to receive > those updates on a regular basis. Consider updating at least monthly. You > should not wait longer than one year to update MacPorts; ports are sometimes > renamed or rearranged in a way that requires compatibility code be inserted > into a port -- compatibility code we typically remove after about a year > since we assume everyone will have updated during that time. > Makes perfect sense, and I'm glad the macports on this machine are current again, I'll keep it that way from now. Thanks again & Cheers -- Peer
_______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
