On Sep 9, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 9, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Adam Dershowitz Ph.D., P.E. <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> The difficulty, from a user perspective, is that it is not obvious when this >> kind of case will occur. I saw that I had some outdated ports, and did an >> upgrade of outdated and not openmodelica-devel. The difficulty is that one >> of those ports was omniORBpy which is what would have “broken" >> openmodelica-devel and caused the rev-upgrade. This is not something that >> would have been obvious beforehand. And also, is not a problem by itself. >> The problem is that “-u” got passed to this rev-upgrade so during that >> process, all the old ones were deleted. The idea that "sudo port -u upgrade >> outdated and not openmodelica-devel” will not only upgrade >> openmodelica-devel but also delete all the old version of that specific port >> seems like a trap to users. > > It's not entirely obvious what the 'correct' behavior would be, though. > > Your new omniORBpy (upgraded with -u) is the only one available after the > upgrade. The installed openmodelica-devel is now broken (won't work with the > new omniORBpy). rev-upgrade /could/ ignore the -u and build a new > openmodelica-devel to fix the issue for you, but you wouldn't be able to > re-activate the old one and have it work. > > I would suggest that what you actually want to be doing is something like: > > port upgrade outdated > port uninstall inactive and not openmodelica-devel (and maybe using one or > more of the pseudo-portname selectors to also hang on to any old dependencies > or dependents). Perhaps this would work: port uninstall inactive and not depof:openmodelica-devel or recursively exclude: port uninstall inactive and not rdepof:openmodelica-devel Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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