<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I do read it more than occasionally, but it's easy to miss things in the mass of detail. Besides, it doesn't work:<div><br></div><div><div>~$ sudo port -s -f -n upgrade emacs-app</div><div>---> Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%</div><div>---> No broken files found.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On 2014-01-13, at 12:03 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Davor Cubranic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cubranic@stat.ubc.ca" target="_blank">cubranic@stat.ubc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If I have an installed port and want to force re-installation from source, I can do it with 'port upgrade -s -f {portname}'. But then all of its dependencies are also re-installed from source. Why is this? I thought usually this recursive upgrade has to be forced with "--enforce-variants"? Is there a better way to do it?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>upgrade checks if dependencies need to be upgraded as well. these checks are as subject to -f as the original upgrade is.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps you want the -n option. (`man port` is a good thing to read occasionally.)</div>
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