Hi ,

I think that's exactly what I did.  I got the two things mixed up.

Thanks,

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:03 PM, James Damon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Should the "port selfupdate" actually remove existing packages , like a
>> Perl , or did I just do something strange with my invocation of the command
>> ? Is there a way to guard against this ?
>>
>
> selfupdate doesn't remove installed packages, although the Portfiles that
> produced the may be removed/modified.  "port upgrade outdated" removes
> installed packages (and saves backups unless you used -u).
>
> --
> brandon s allbery                                      [email protected]
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>
>
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