[47756] trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:37:01PM -0500, Orville Bennett said:
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Mar 5, 2009, at 09:24, jmr at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 47756
>>>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/47756
>>> Author:   jmr at macports.org
>>> Date:     2009-03-05 07:24:46 -0800 (Thu, 05 Mar 2009)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> upgrade: split upgrading dependencies into a separate proc, and use  
>>> it to make sure that before new ports are installed during upgrade,  
>>> their dependencies are upgraded.
>>
>> Now that's just fantastic! Thanks.
> I'm a bit more apprehensive about the awesomeness of this.
> Is there some check which ensures that upgrading the dependency doesn't 
> break the app that's updated?
> I already know the answer is no and that this is unlikely to happen. For 
> those of us using macports for packaging though, a switch to turn this off 
> would be welcome (please). Preferably in macports.conf
> "recursive_upgrade true/false" sounds nice :-)

'man port' mentions -n, which should still work here, otherwise I'd call
that a bug.

Bryan