Forcing a variant to a variant

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jun 4, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> I sent my reply to Rainer only.
> So hard for me to get use to reply all since this is the only list  
> I'm on that does this.
> Adding a "reply to: macports" would be so nice.
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>> On 2009-06-05 01:54, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>> There is:
>>> /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf
>>>
>>> where you could put:
>>> +server
>>>
>>> and I believe you will get the +server add to all ports that port
>>> builds, no?
>>
>> Yes, that would select +server automatically if available.
>>
>>> I mentioned recently gentoo's package.mask for masking packages or
>>> packages above a version. Personally I'd like something like that in
>>> ports.
>>
>> Masking ports is not too useful if you only got one version as  
>> opposed
>> to Gentoo where you can choose the version.
>
> It works well for not upgrading things like gcc but I'm thinking  
> openssl as well.
> I just don't understand how a problem with openssl would be resolved  
> in such a way that it broke virtually all my services.
>
> Makes me REALLY REALLY want a feature like gentoo's -p (pretend)  
> where port would just tell me what it would do with the command.
> I guess there was talk about a port -y (dry run) command.
>
> port upgrade installed
> The following ports would be upgraded:
> 	libxxx at 0.9.3 => libxxx at 0.9.4
> The following ports would be installed
> 	openssl at 0.9.xf
> The following ports woud be uninstalled
> 	openssl at 1.0.x-beta
>
> I'd feel much better adding a "-vp" to all my install, uninstall,  
> upgrade, activate and deactivate commands BEFORE actually effecting  
> the filesystem.
>
> //Brad

I meant
port -y upgrade installed
The following ports would be upgraded:
	libxxx at 0.9.3 => libxxx at 0.9.4
The following ports would be installed
	openssl at 0.9.xf
The following ports woud be uninstalled
	openssl at 1.0.x-beta

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