On Dec 7, 2007, at 1:09 PM, paul beard wrote:
On 12/5/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> wrote:
I agree here again. You should not have to force anything in normal use. But you currently do, to uninstall old versions of software on which other software depends. Discussion of how this situation could be improved would probably be welcomed on the macports-dev list.
is there a reason not to make what we now use as "-f" the default behavior? If I use "port upgrade foo" I expect foo to be upgraded to the latest version. the use of "upgrade" implies that I have an existing version that may be out of date and if it is, I want it upgraded.
I realize, in circumstances like the gettext issue mentioned above, that can hose things up, but that could be something is flagged in a Portfile that might display a message like:
#### Installed port foo 0.6-7,1 is superceded by foo 0.7. foo 0.7 is incompatible with installed ports bar 1.1 baz 0.9-1 quux 0.2-3,1_3
To upgrade foo correctly, please uninstall the ports that depend on it, upgrade foo and reinstall the dependents.
####
here's a particularly hairy example from FreeBSD's UPDATING file:
20050201: AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5 and lang/perl5.8 AUTHOR: tobez@FreeBSD.org
lang/perl5 has been updated to 5.6.2, and lang/perl5.8 has been updated to 5.8.6. you should update everything depending on perl, that is:
* first, upgrade your perl installation (use either lang/perl5 or lang/perl5.8, the latter being recommended); * for FreeBSD 4.X, run "use.perl port", so that the system knows you have 5.8.6 or 5.6.2; this step is not needed on FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD -CURRENT; * run some magic incantations to upgrade all ports depending on perl, that is run something like : portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5\* |tail +4; \ find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.[68].[1245] -type f - print0 \ | xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //')| sort -u` This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade them afterwards by hand.
Personally, I would have this be dumped out to the console when an upgrade matches the date and version that this applies to. But that's cuz I am too lazy/absent-minded to read UPDATING as often as I should.
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pardon, but doesnt using -R (-dfunR) take care of this? William Davis frstanATbellsouthDOTnet Mac OS X.5.1 Darwin 9.1.0 X11.app 2.1.0 - X.org X11R7.2 Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz Mundus vult decepi, ego non