<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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