On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Davor Cubranic <[email protected]>wrote:
> If I have an installed port and want to force re-installation from source,
> I can do it with 'port upgrade -s -f {portname}'. But then all of its
> dependencies are also re-installed from source. Why is this? I thought
> usually this recursive upgrade has to be forced with "--enforce-variants"?
> Is there a better way to do it?
>
upgrade checks if dependencies need to be upgraded as well. these checks
are as subject to -f as the original upgrade is.
Perhaps you want the -n option. (`man port` is a good thing to read
occasionally.)
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