"selfupdate" is the command shown in the Wiki
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/UsingMacPortsQuickStart
and the text there says it's for grabbing the latest PortFiles.
i thought that the number after the underscore on the end of the port
name showed the version of the Portfile ... so even if the version of
the software hadn't changed, a change in the Portfile and perhaps
important things about the way it's set up and installed were
reflected by a incrementing number, and these were shown up by port
outdated.
For instance
freetype @2.3.4_0
freetype @2.3.4_1
freetype @2.3.5_0 (active)
So are portfile changes no longer reflected in this way? Or is there
a different port command to show them up?
Mark
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At 19:05 -0500 5/7/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jul 5, 2007, at 17:53, Mark Hattam wrote:
In that case it's changed what it reports with the -d ... I've
always used that because that what the documentation says (or at
least said) to do.
-d means debug i.e. print more info.
It used to report the delta, ie the new, the changed and the
deleted files. Now it seems to report everything.
I was wondering partly because of the several Apache2 Portfile
changes I've seen go through on the "Commit Log" list, but haven't
apparently been caught by the sudo port -d selfupdate, as the sudo
port outdated hasn't brought up any results for Apache2
selfupdate is only for updating MacPorts base infrastructure.
port outdated will only show ports that are outdated. A portfile can
be updated without requiring users to reinstall the software. You
can look in Subversion and see the log of everything that has been
done to a portfile:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/log/trunk/dports/www/apache2
You can see that in the latest change in June neither the version
nor the revision was updated, hence "port outdated" won't show it.
In this particular case, it might have been better had jberry also
incremented the port revision so that everyone would receive this
change. In other cases, that's not necessary.
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