On Jul 5, 2007, at 17:53, Mark Hattam wrote:
In that case it's changed what it reports with the -d ... I've always used that because that what the documentation says (or at least said) to do.
-d means debug i.e. print more info.
It used to report the delta, ie the new, the changed and the deleted files. Now it seems to report everything. I was wondering partly because of the several Apache2 Portfile changes I've seen go through on the "Commit Log" list, but haven't apparently been caught by the sudo port -d selfupdate, as the sudo port outdated hasn't brought up any results for Apache2
selfupdate is only for updating MacPorts base infrastructure. port outdated will only show ports that are outdated. A portfile can be updated without requiring users to reinstall the software. You can look in Subversion and see the log of everything that has been done to a portfile: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/log/trunk/dports/www/ apache2 You can see that in the latest change in June neither the version nor the revision was updated, hence "port outdated" won't show it. In this particular case, it might have been better had jberry also incremented the port revision so that everyone would receive this change. In other cases, that's not necessary.