I typically use -u when I do an upgrade. However there is one port that I like to keep old versions around, because it is very much in development (specifically openmodelica-devel). So I usually do: sudo port -u upgrade outdated and not openmodelica-devel
then other times I do: sudo port upgrade openmodelica-devel That usual works fine. But, a few days ago the py27-omniORBpy port upgraded when I did "sudo port -u upgrade outdated and not openmodelica-devel”. Due to dependencies that then caused macports to find a link error during the scan and to perform an upgrade on openmodelica-devel. The problem is that the -u was passed to this upgrade, so despite the command having “not openmodelica-devel” macports still did the upgrade and clean. So, these old ports were removed. I do understand why the behavior happened, and I am not sure of the best solution going forward. Perhaps, when doing upgrades due to “scanning binaries for linking errors” macports should honor the full command line? I did tell it not to upgrade openmodelica-devel, and it did it anyway. Is there anything that I could have done differently (other then not using -u?) Maybe just user awareness, hence this email? --Adam _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
