#12013: "port upgrade" tries to activate an installed version before building the new version ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: vinc17@macports.org | Owner: eridius@macports.org Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: MacPorts 1.6.1 Component: base | Version: 1.4.42 Resolution: | Keywords: ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Changes (by jmr@macports.org): * cc: vinc17@macports.org, eridius@macports.org (removed) * cc: jmr@macports.org (added) * milestone: MacPorts base bugs => MacPorts 1.6.1 Comment: The comment [http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl#L19... here] says that upgrade will deactivate any active version of the port before activating the latest installed version. The code to do that is broken though. The test around the deactivate call is always false, and the deactivate call itself doesn't use the full version spec (which would cause it to fail if it were ever actually reached). The purpose of testing at all instead of just deactivating whatever's active seems to be to avoid deactivating if the latest version is already the one that is active. The attached patch should hopefully make this work as intended. I'm also proposing this for the 1.6.1 milestone. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12013#comment:7> MacPorts </> Ports system for Mac OS