On Jul 10, 2007, at 18:49, Chris Waterson wrote:

Hi there! I've been using macports for some time now, and one thing that is frustrating is the fact that "port upgrade" leaves crufty old variants behind.

You mean: crufty old versions behind. "variants" has a different meaning for MacPorts.

I've tried:

port -uR upgrade outdated

in the hopes that "-u" would "uninstall non-active ports when upgrading and uninstalling" (as claimed by the man page) and that combining it with "-R" would "also upgrade dependents" (by which I was hoping "upgrade" meant "rebuild with the newer variant).

Here I don't know what you mean by "variant". If you're talking about variants in the way that MacPorts defines that term, then "upgrade" will only retain the set of variants with which you originally installed the port. If you now want to have a different set of variants on a port, then your only option is to completely uninstall (or at least deactivate) the existing port, and then install it with the variants you now want. I wasn't familiar with -R. You're right, I see it's in the manpage. But MacPorts follows dependencies by default, so I don't think you need -R.

This doesn't seem to be the case, but leads to lots of extra warnings during my upgrade, for example, the following (five times, or so):

Error: Uninstall sqlite3 3.3.17_0+darwin_8 failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on sqlite3 first. ---> Unable to uninstall sqlite3 3.3.17_0+darwin_8, the following ports depend on it: ---> apr-util

At which point, for each piece of cruft, I wander through all the dependents by hand, uninstall each, then uninstall the old variant, then re-install each dependent.

Surely I am doing something wrong. Can someone vend me a clue?

I recommend you do the following (substituting any other port name for "sqlite3" as desired): sudo port -u upgrade sqlite3 If you encounter an error that says it's required for other ports, then force the upgrade: sudo port -ufn upgrade sqlite3 If other ports depend on sqlite3, then you need to force (-f) the uninstall. However, then you'll also want the nonrecursive flag (-n), else MacPorts will rebuild all of sqlite3's dependencies too, possibly even multiple times, which is just a waste of your time. The latter is a bug: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/10827 Since you normally do want MacPorts to follow dependencies if necessary, you should always first try just upgrading with -u, and only if that fails, switch to -unf. The fact that apr-util is listed five times in your output instead of once is also a bug: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/8763

On Jul 11, 2007, at 00:10, Chris Waterson wrote:

On Jul 10, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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I recommend you do the following (substituting any other port name for "sqlite3" as desired):

sudo port -u upgrade sqlite3

If you encounter an error that says it's required for other ports, then force the upgrade:

sudo port -ufn upgrade sqlite3

If other ports depend on sqlite3, then you need to force (-f) the uninstall. However, then you'll also want the nonrecursive flag (- n), else MacPorts will rebuild all of sqlite3's dependencies too, possibly even multiple times, which is just a waste of your time. The latter is a bug:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/10827

Since you normally do want MacPorts to follow dependencies if necessary, you should always first try just upgrading with -u, and only if that fails, switch to -unf.

The fact that apr-util is listed five times in your output instead of once is also a bug:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/8763

Okay, thanks for the pointers.

I did take a stab at "port -ufn upgrade", but that seemed to *still* not get rid of the dependency. As the below trace shows:

1. I can't uninstall gd2 @2.0.34_0 because gnuplot depends on it.

2. Rebuilding either gd2 or gnuplot does not clear the dependency.

3. But the dependency is (seems?) false, since I can "port uninstall -f gd2 @2.0.34_0" and gnuplot will still run. I suppose it's possible that gd2 is dlopen'd and gnuplot will fail splendidly later.

Anyway, it seems like there might just be some issues with dependency tracking.

Thanks for your help!

chris

~$ sudo port uninstall gd2 ---> The following versions of gd2 are currently installed: ---> gd2 @2.0.34_0 ---> gd2 @2.0.35_0 (active) Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full version as recorded in the port registry. ~$ sudo port uninstall gd2 @2.0.34_0 ---> Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.34_0, the following ports depend on it: ---> gnuplot Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on gd2 first. ~$ sudo port -ufn upgrade gd2 ---> Configuring gd2 ---> Building gd2 with target all ---> Staging gd2 into destroot ---> Packaging tgz archive for gd2 2.0.35_0 ---> Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.35_0, the following ports depend on it: ---> gnuplot Warning: Uninstall forced. Proceeding despite dependencies. ---> Deactivating gd2 2.0.35_0 ---> Uninstalling gd2 2.0.35_0 ---> Installing gd2 2.0.35_0 ---> Activating gd2 2.0.35_0 ---> Cleaning gd2 ~$ sudo port uninstall gd2 ---> The following versions of gd2 are currently installed: ---> gd2 @2.0.34_0 ---> gd2 @2.0.35_0 (active) Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full version as recorded in the port registry. ~$ sudo port uninstall gd2 @2.0.34_0 ---> Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.34_0, the following ports depend on it: ---> gnuplot Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on gd2 first. ~$ sudo port uninstall gnuplot ---> Unable to uninstall gnuplot 4.2.0_0, the following ports depend on it: ---> octave Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on gnuplot first. ~$ sudo port -ufn upgrade gnuplot ---> Fetching gnuplot ---> Verifying checksum(s) for gnuplot ---> Extracting gnuplot ---> Applying patches to gnuplot ---> Configuring gnuplot ---> Building gnuplot with target all ---> Staging gnuplot into destroot ---> Packaging tgz archive for gnuplot 4.2.0_0 ---> Unable to uninstall gnuplot 4.2.0_0, the following ports depend on it: ---> octave Warning: Uninstall forced. Proceeding despite dependencies. ---> Deactivating gnuplot 4.2.0_0 ---> Uninstalling gnuplot 4.2.0_0 ---> Installing gnuplot 4.2.0_0 ---> Activating gnuplot 4.2.0_0 ---> Cleaning gnuplot ~$ sudo port uninstall gd2 @2.0.34_0 ---> Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.34_0, the following ports depend on it: ---> gnuplot Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on gd2 first. ~$ sudo port -f uninstall gd2 @2.0.34_0 ---> Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.34_0, the following ports depend on it: ---> gnuplot Warning: Uninstall forced. Proceeding despite dependencies. ---> Uninstalling gd2 2.0.34_0 ~$ gnuplot

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According to "port info gnuplot", it does require gd2. If you believe it does not, you can take that up with Paul Guyot, the port's maintainer. But I think you are merely being confused by this message:

---> Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.34_0, the following ports depend on it: ---> gnuplot

The message is only trying to say that gnuplot depends on gd2, but not that it depends on a specific version of gd2. (MacPorts doesn't even have a syntax to have a port depend on a specific version of another port.) You already have gd2 2.0.35_0 installed, so uninstalling 2.0.34 should be perfectly fine. Just force it: $ sudo port -f uninstall gd2 @2.0.24_0