#38764: "install boost @1.52.0" should not install a later version without comment --------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: dave@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Keywords: | Port: --------------------+-------------------------------- Z% sudo /opt/local/bin/port install boost @1.52.0 ---> Computing dependencies for boost ---> Fetching archive for boost ---> Attempting to fetch boost-1.53.0_1+no_single+no_static+python27.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/boost ---> Attempting to fetch boost-1.53.0_1+no_single+no_static+python27.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://packages.macports.org/boost ---> Installing boost @1.53.0_1+no_single+no_static+python27 ---> Activating boost @1.53.0_1+no_single+no_static+python27 ---> Cleaning boost ---> Updating database of binaries: 100.0% ---> Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0% ---> No broken files found. Z% I asked for @1.52.0, a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but port instead installs 1.53.0. This is wrong. Port should install the version I asked for, or if it can't or won't, then it should complain and exit nonzero. Until such time as port would be so kind as to actually install an asked-for old version, it could help by printing out the svn command I would need to use to get the old version, or better yet, a shell command that gets it and puts it in the right place. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38764> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X