Announcing: port_upgrade

[Tony Doan]

Jeremy,

In many cases your commands probably work fine. Partly I started this  
before port uninstall inactive worked. Previously if you had two  
versions of libiconv  you couldn't uninstall the older one. But I've  
also found many cases were port upgrade leaves me with multiple broken  
ports. How bad that situation is probably depends largely on how often  
you upgrade your ports. One audience for port_upgrade is folks that  
have been installing ports for quite sometime but have never upgraded  
anything. In that case port_upgrade can leave you with a fresh clean  
tree where everything works, albeit a trade off for the recompile time.

This got started after the second time my ports were so bent that the  
solution ended up being:

rm -rf /opt//local

I'm sure port_upgrade isn't for everyone.

\T

On May 9, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>
> On May 9, 2009, at 14:05, Tony Doan wrote:
>
>> (long time lurker, first time poster)
>>
>> Got MacPorts?
>>
>> Do you normally keep things up to date by running "port sync; port  
>> upgrade outdated"? Do you then wish there was a problem free way to  
>> clean out all the previous versions?
>
> How is this different/better than my favorite solution:
>
> sudo port -v upgrade outdated
> sudo port -v uninstall inactive
>
>