On Aug 7, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Michael Gersten wrote:
>> That is true, when they are related. But I have also had a bunch of times
>> where two ports at both outdated, and are not at all related. But, by
>> default, macports stops when port A gives an error, so it never gets to
>> build B, even though there is no dependency.
>>
>> In those cases, I will do:
>> sudo port upgrade B
>> and then B upgrades just fine. By doing it that way, you are not going to
>> cause any problems, because if B actually depends on A, then when you do the
>> above it will first try to upgrade A, and give an error. But, if they are
>> in fact un-related, then B will upgrade fine.
>>
>> Perhaps there is an easier way to accomplish this? Because, I have also had
>> cases with a bunch of outdated ports, and the first one gives an error. At
>> that point it is hard to figure out which ones are dependencies on each
>> other. If I gives an error, I often end up manually doing:
>> sudo port upgrade B C D E F
>> But, then maybe I will get B C D to build fine, but E was actually related
>> to A, so it tries to build A and gives the error again.
>> And that has me thinking about a wish list item: Seems like it would be
>> nice to have some kind of flag that essentially says, "build what you can,
>> and skip ports that are giving errors and their dependents, but upgrade
>> other independent things"
>
>
> Sounds to me that you want the equivalent of "make -k"
> -k, --keep-going
> Continue as much as possible after an error. While the target
> that failed, and those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the
> other dependencies of these targets can be processed all the same.
>
> Sadly, I've asked for this in the past also, and been told "sorry".
>
> So if it didn't come in 2.0 (haven't upgraded yet), then it's probably not
> going to come.
There has always been this. But it's p for "proceed on error".
-p Despite any errors encountered, proceed to process multiple
ports and commands.
I usually run the following:
sudo port -p upgrade outdated
Cheers!
Frank
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