[TxMt] DarwinPorts or Fink

[Ron Rosson]

On Nov 8, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
>
>> Also if DarwinPorts is now MacPorts then why are both http:// 
>> darwinports.opendarwin.org/ and http://www.macports.org/ both  
>> operational?  Shouldn't the darwinports site be removed if it is  
>> just old stuff?  Or at least it should have a not pointing you to  
>> the newer macports site?
>
> It says this on DP:
>
> "As part of the transition to Mac OS Forge, the DarwinPorts project  
> will adopt the new name MacPorts, utilizing the macports.org  
> domain, which it recently acquired. "We believe the new name  
> MacPorts better reflects our mission, which is to provide a  
> collection of open source ports for Mac OS X, with future  
> supportfor binary packages", says Juan Manuel Palacios, another  
> DarwinPorts member.
>
> Members of the DarwinPorts/MacPorts project and portmgr team will  
> work with opendarwin.org and Mac OS Forge to effect a smooth  
> transition over the coming weeks."

If you have syncd your MacPorts/Darwinports recently you will see  
this in the beginning:

DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed.
Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports
receiving file list ... done
./

and in the end you will see this:

Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.320
The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated
DEBUG: Setting ownership to root
selfupdate done!
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