On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:45 PM, William Davis wrote:

> You need to do "sudo port -d selfupdate" before
> port outdated not after.

Thank you for help.  I will do so henceforth.

I thought,  without reading manual in details, 'selfupdate' means 
updating both MacPorts base and port index, and 
'sync' updating only port index.  

Kuniaki  Mukai

>
> On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:32 AM, Kuniaki Mukai wrote:
>
>>
>> Here is a command line log of MacPorts.
>>
>> % port outdated
>> The following installed ports are outdated:
>> mpfr                           2.4.1-p2_0 < 2.4.1-p4_0
>> % sudo port selfupdate
>> Password:
>>
>> MacPorts base version 1.700 installed
>> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.700
>>
>> The MacPorts installation is not outdated so it was not updated
>> % sudo port sync
>>
>> (Launch Porticus and do the menu item  selfupdate, which
>> shows only bash and graphviz are outdated. )
>>
>> % port outdated
>> The following installed ports are outdated:
>> bash                           4.0.0_0 < 4.0.10_0
>> graphviz                       2.22.0_0 < 2.22.1_0
>> mpfr                           2.4.1-p2_0 < 2.4.1-p4_0
>> %
>>
>> It seems that this log still suggests that 'port outdated' command
>> works correct only after Porticus selfupdate menu being done,
>> as I suspect.
>>
>>
>> K. Mukai
>>
>
>
> You need to do "sudo port -d selfupdate" before
> port outdated not after.
> You see "selfupdate" is what causes your own port file index to get updated. 
> Port didnt know about bash and graphviz because your index was not 
> "up-to-date" when up gave the "port outdated" command. All porticus did was 
> give port the same selfupdate command you could have given on the command 
> line before you gave the port outdated command.
>
> William Davis
> frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
> Mac OS X.5.6 Darwin 9.5.0
> XQuartz 2.3.3_rc1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple36)
> Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz
>
> Mundus vult decepi, ego non
>

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