DarwinPorts 1.3.1
Juan Manuel Palacios <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports |
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Good morning people! We are pleased to announce the final release of
DarwinPorts 1.3.1, with many bug fixes over the short lived 1.3
release. For a moderately detailed list of the fixes that were
incorporated please have a look at our ChangeLog:
http://cvs.opendarwin.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/proj/darwinports/base/
ChangeLog?rev=1.32.2.5
Updating can be accomplished through any of the usual ways: selfupdate
for those already with a dp installation, or by downloading the sources
and building yourself or installing from the prebuilt images for
Panther and Tiger (Universal) located at our downloads page,
http://darwinports.org/getdp/
I'd like to note that, although extensive testing went into this
release to insure the highest quality, there's still a relatively small
bug in the final installation, harmless to most I'm sure. There's a new
script for those of you who use dp with command files (see the
documentation for the -F flag on the port(1) man page), 'portf', which
is just a symbolic link to the usual 'port' script as a shorthand for
'port -F' (useful if you wish to use 'port' in a shell script, using
'#!/usr/bin/env portf' as the shebang). However, the instructions for
the creation of this link were incorrect at first (corrected already in
our sources, up for our next release) and therefore all you'll see is a
broken link. To correct it simply execute:
cd ${prefix}/bin
sudo rm -f portf
sudo ln -s ${prefix}/port portf
${prefix} expanding to where ever you decided to install DarwinPorts,
/opt/local by default.
Other than that, DarwinPorts should be well in shape for all your
enjoyment! This release brings in full compatibility with all our
Portfiles, including some that had received updates with features that
weren't in 1.2.1, like livecheck.
We are all indebted to Paul Guyot and Charlie Allom, who both put a
lot into the development of 1.3 and 1.3.1, and into the coordination
and engineering of their releases, they wouldn't have happened without
them. Thanks a lot guys!
Any problems, unexpected behavior, bugs... you know what to do ;-)
On behalf of portmgr@, regards....
Juan