On Nov 8, 2012, at 22:06, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You can get an archive of ports from December 14, 2008, from the day 
>> MacPorts 1.7.0 was released, here:
>> 
>> https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.7.0/
>> 
>> Using that, you could install the subversion port, then you could get 
>> somewhat newer ports from the Subversion repository. For example to check 
>> out ports from the day before 1.8.0 was released:
>> 
>> svn co https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports -r 
>> '{2009-08-28}'
> 
> Getting
> <https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-1.8.0-archive.tar.bz2>
> would be easier and virtually the same (compatible with 1.7.1), since
> the archive tarballs are generated just before the corresponding base
> version is released.

Good point!

Using a Subversion working copy would give you more control over updating 
individual ports to newer versions, for those where that might be possible.

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