On 01 Nov 2016, at 19:57 , Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote:

> On 2016-11-01 19:50, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 07:09:48PM +0100, Marko Käning wrote:
>>> how can I convince rev-upgrade to actually rebuild broken ports if
>>> 'revupgrade_mode' is set to ‘report' in macports.conf? 
>> 
>> You can specifically rebuild them manually using port -nf upgrade $port.
> 
> Never use the global force option -f with upgrade, but instead:
> 
>  sudo port -n upgrade --force $port
> 
> The local --force was specifically added to only force the upgrade, but
> do not apply force to any other phase. In case of variant mismatches,
> the global 'port -f' will continue although the state in the work/
> directory is inconsistent. In case of activation conflicts, the global
> 'port -f' will blindly overwrite existing files.

Jeez, thanks, guys, for the pointers! I haven’t thought about that an
individual upgrade would do the job just fine. But here I see that even
that isn’t that easy...

This should be in the wiki, man page and our Guide!

Marko
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