MacPorts 1.9.0 has been released

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Jun 17 02:41:52 PDT 2010


On 2010-06-16 22:25 , Marko Käning wrote:
> Is the following workflow correct?
> 
> 1) sudo port selfupdate
> 2) change port format in macports.conf to sqlite
> 3) sudo port setrequested PORTS
> 4) get macports tip from svn and install directly with 'make install' (i.e. w/o deinstallation of current macports)
> 5) sudo port upgrade outdated
> 
> I hope that point 3 avoids that macports would uninstall all existing ports from my system.

MacPorts does not uninstall ports automatically, you would always have
to do that manually. But the "request" feature offers an easy way to do so.

Rainer


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