On 2010-6-12 08:03 , Scott Webster wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: >> Probably the dependencies were changed without bumping the revision, and >> you installed before the changes. >> > > Thanks, this was it. Reinstalling the dependent ports updated things. > So, to satisfy my curiosity in terms of trying to understand the > code, does this registry update take place in > portinstall::install_main in src/port1.0/portinstall.tcl?
Yes, the dependencies for a port are recorded in the registry when it is installed. > I guess the > "1.0" terminology for the macports1.0 and port1.0 directories means > "anything between 1.0 and 2.0"? Or maybe these versions are just > independent of the "macports version," currently at 1.9.0 (similar to > how we now have registry2.0). The packages have their own independent versions, see <http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/package.htm>. We actually don't make much use of Tcl's package versioning capabilities though. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
