MacPorts 2.8.0-beta1 now available for testing

Source code and pkgs for MacPorts 2.8.0-beta1 are now available [1]. Testing of either of these install methods is helpful. Be prepared to encounter bugs. As always, having a recent backup would be wise. Please report any bugs that you find [2] (after first searching Trac [3], of course!) There

Re: Does the migration procedure keep ports versions?

See https://www.macworld.com/article/673939/this-is-how-long-macs-and-macbooks-last.html and in particular down at the section entitled "When do Macs become obsolete?” This is NOT worse than Windows.

dead man page links?

Given a bunch of No such file or directory errors from man -k and/or /usr/libexec/makewhatis, I looked a bit, and /opt/local/share/man/man1/dot2gxl.1 is provided by: graphviz /opt/local/share/man/man1/fcat.1.gz is provided by: fsp /opt/local/share/man/man1/fcd.1.gz is provided by: fsp