macports/macports-base v2.10.0-beta1

MacPorts 2.10.0 beta 1

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Changes since 2.9.3:

• port space no longer overcounts the space used by ports that
  install links. (#66526, jmr in 11662bd)

• The number of outdated ports is printed after running
  port selfupdate. (#33820, thelastlin in 4ae6d98)

• port selfupdate now checks whether MacPorts base is outdated by
  downloading a small file, and only downloads and extracts the
  source code (via http(s)) if a new version needs to be installed.
  Integrity of the source is checked using OpenBSD's signify(1).
  The old rsync method is used as a fallback if the new method fails.
  (#38265, cal in dd3acc4)

• Line continuation is supported in macports.conf by ending lines
  with a backslash. (jmr in b86ef1e)

• Ports' files are now activated using clonefile() when on a
  filesystem that supports cloning (such as APFS). This should
  perform better and use less storage for active ports. Port images
  are stored as directories rather than archives in this case. A
  portimage_mode option has been added to macports.conf to
  enable changing which method is used. (#69555, jmr in 4504942)

• The middle part of bin:, lib:, and path: depspecs is no longer
  interpreted as a regex. This was mostly undocumented, almost
  never used, and made it difficult to use paths containing
  characters with special meaning in regexes.
  (#69585, jmr in e0c1226)

• Added port migrate action, which can be used after moving to a
  new major OS version or CPU architecture to reinstall MacPorts
  base and installed ports if needed. (umeshksingla in 6e2f453,
  cal in 3f83ad1, 4317a32, f40f655, 72478b1 etc.)

• Added -t and -N options to the default patch.pre_args, to prevent
  patch(1) on recent macOS versions from silently reverse-applying
  already-applied patches. (vallon in b1f59d8)

• Updated the bundled Tcl to 8.6.14. (jmr in bc46d68)

• Added test.asroot option. (jmr in 6f0de6c)

• Prevented port rdeps --full from looping infinitely when there
  are circular dependencies. (#62711, jmr in 49df406)

• Performance improvements for many operations, particularly
  boolean expressions and Portfile parsing. (jmr in a28e81c,
  169b1ed, 2f3d072, c97e75d, 341d9a0, 46bc1af, etc.)

• Add progress bars to slow activation and deactivation operations.
  (cal in b78e320, 5e669e4, 31c2851, cb33058, effd435)