Many thanks for the help given by the three of you, Ryan, Mihai and Brandon. The following gives a good summary of what to do with netbpm and Brandon pointed out that it is wisest to do no other computing alongside any upgrade. I am very grateful to you all.
Barrie. On 13 Jun 2015, at 19:46, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jun 13, 2015, at 02:56, Barrie Stott wrote: > >>> Yes, if "port outdated" shows that netpbm is outdated, running "sudo port >>> -f deactivate netpbm" before running "sudo port upgrade outdated" is fine; >>> it's what I do, if I remember to do so. >> >> My worry now is that if run "sudo port -f deactivate netpbm" then that newly >> deactivated version of netpbm will no longer register as outdated so it will >> not be upgraded when I run "sudo port upgrade outdated". Will I not have to >> run "sudo port install netpbm" straight after my forced deactivation? > > You are correct that "outdated" only considers active ports. > > If you have other outdated ports installed that depend on netpbm, then you > can deactivate netpbm and just run "sudo port upgrade outdated". netpbm will > be upgraded at the appropriate time, since it is a dependency of one of the > outdated ports. > > If you did not have any outdated ports installed that depend on netpbm, you > could still deactivate netpbm, then run "sudo port upgrade netpbm outdated". _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
