When you upgrade a port, everything it depends on gets updated first, right? What doesn't get upgraded should not affect what does get upgraded during the configure/build/install/activate phase, right? So how is using -u different from uninstalling everything and reinstalling everything again?
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Carlo Tambuatco <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> But the doesn't the -u option do exactly what is in the migration guide? >> ie: uninstall old ports in favor of the new upgraded version? What's the >> difference? > > > -u means remove archived old versions of the port that is currently being > upgraded. It says nothing about ports that aren't being upgraded at the > time, either because you are manually upgrading things or because the newer > port isn't building (as happens with e.g. pre-libc++ versions of clang on > libc++-based OS X). > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > [email protected] > [email protected] > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net >
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