On Apr 14, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Apr 14, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Peter Koellner wrote:
I started an "upgrade outdated", and am experiencing a very strange
behaviour. The process seems to loop around, reinstalling perl5.8.8
and other packages again and again and again.
It started with a few compilation and activation problems, so I did a
few activate -f underway.
That is what -f does. So you probably never want to use -f with
port upgrade.
Never want to use -f with port upgrade alone, I mean. Using it with
the -n (nonrecursive) flag is fine and I do that often.
See the bottom of this message for a better way to upgrade outdated
ports:
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-April/
009840.html
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