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. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
