upgrade outdated: strange loop

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 14, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Peter Koellner wrote:

> I started an "upgrade outdated", and am experiencing a very strange
> behaviour. The process seems to loop around, reinstalling perl5.8.8
> and other packages again and again and again.
> It started with a few compilation and activation problems, so I did a
> few activate -f underway.

That is what -f does. So you probably never want to use -f with port  
upgrade.

> I have attached the console output until now. Sometimes it has a
> +darwin9 variant, other times not. I don't know if this is the cause
> or an effect of another underlying problem. Any tips how to kick that
> back into the rails?

A +darwin_9 variant will appear for ports which want or need some  
special behavior on Leopard, and will be absent for those that do  
not. Nothing to worry about.