On Aug 15, 2013, at 16:09, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Aug 15, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> If you want to combine those two operations into a single command, it's: >>> >>> sudo port -u upgrade outdated >> >> Ah, good point. I don't recall why I had them split out like that. >> Restricting commands to single actions? Ignorance? I don't know. > > I usually use -u because I don't mind fixing things when I break them with an > upgrade ... however it's /really/ nice to do an upgrade and if something goes > wrong, to be able to reactivate the previously installed port - so I'm glad > that -u isn't the default on upgrade :) >
Exactly, which is why I'd want to leave the previous version around. >> I tried that once, and had to restore my whole installation tree from backup. > > That shouldn't have been necessary. What went wrong? If only I knew ... It's possible that I did an "-u uninstall inactive", I have a vague memory that I should never use -u again! _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
