On Jan 24, 2008, at 17:00, Adam Dershowitz wrote:

I currently have gimp-app gimp-app @2.4.0-rc1_0 installed. If I do a sync and then port info gimp-app it shows gimp-app 2.4.0. But if I do port outdated, this port does not show up as outdated. I would think that 2.4.0-rc1_0 is older then 2.4.0. But port seems to think that it is more current. Is it just doing a string compare to find the which one is newer? Am I correct about which one is in fact newer?

You're right that 2.4.0 is newer than 2.4.0-rc1. Unfortunately, the version comparison logic in MacPorts doesn't know this. It's not a simple string comparison -- it's the rpm-vercomp function -- but that function still doesn't know about release candidate version numbering (as far as I know). You'll have to force the upgrade: $ sudo port -ncuf upgrade gimp-app I'm not sure why the port was ever updated to a release-candidate version; generally, that should not be done, since generally ports should only contain released versions, not release candidates, beta, alpha or other pre-release versions. (The exception to this are ports named *-devel; these are by definition supposed to contain release candidates, betas, alphas, or otherwise development versions. But we're talking about gimp-app, not gimp-app-devel (which doesn't exist anyway).)