problem with multiple active ports

[William Davis]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:44 AM, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org>  
> wrote:
>> C. Florian Ebeling wrote:
>>> Where is the "active" state maintained? Is it possible to clean up  
>>> by hand?
>>
>> Have a look at ${prefi}/var/macports/receipts/
>>
>> The receipt.bz2 files are normal text files, just decompress them.  
>> There
>> will be "active 1" inside the file, change it to "active 0".
>
> that was definitely helpful, thanks!
>
> Florian
>

If you use:
sudo port -u upgrade foo
port will automatically uninstall the old version when it installs the  
new one.

William Davis
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