port outdated show updates, port upgrade outdated say no updates available

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun May 30 21:24:13 PDT 2010


On 2010-5-31 14:14 , Adam Mercer wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 23:06, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> Well, that actually explains a lot. The receipt has 'epoch 2', while the
>> current portfile is at epoch 1. No idea how it got there unless you used
>> a modified portfile at some point, but in any case the epoch value would
>> have been carried over into the sqlite registry. (You can check this by
>> opening the registry.db with the sqlite3 tool and running the .dump
>> command.)
> 
> Yes, it's marked as epoch 2:
> 
> INSERT INTO "ports"
> VALUES(39,'gcc44','',NULL,'/opt/local/var/macports/software/gcc44/4.4.1_0',2,'4.4.1',0,'','','installed',1252817603,'image','',0,'','');
> 
> I can't recall bumping the epoch, but this is from at least 7 months ago...
> 
>> But the real question is now why 'port outdated' is *incorrectly*
>> showing gcc44 as outdated.
> 
> How can I be of help in tracking that down?

I think I got it (r68286). Please test. :-)

- Josh


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