port upgrade causes problems when port not installed

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 29, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>> If you aren't using archive mode, and you turn it off (as it's now  
>> off by default), the upgrade target will be 'destroot' and things  
>> should work like they used to.
>
> Off by default? huh.

yep.

portmgr (and landonf) decided that archivemode isn't very useful  
(especially with image mode being the default).

Personally, I switched to direct mode on one machine when there were  
hardlink performance issues and haven't switched back (direct mode +  
archives leaves most of the advantages of image mode, is conceptually  
simpler, and could probably totally replace image mode with a little  
work, in my opinion).

> I use it once in a blue moon, but maybe I should just turn it off.

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