upgrade --force

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

Under "port upgrade --force", wouldn't it be better to wait until the Portfile is ready to activate the newly built port before deactivating and uninstalling the existing port?

$ sudo port -n upgrade --force phonon
--->  Computing dependencies for phonon
--->  Cleaning phonon
--->  Unable to uninstall phonon @4.6.0_0, the following ports depend on it:
--->  	akonadi @1.7.2_0
...
--->  	taglib-extras @1.0.1_2
Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
--->  Deactivating phonon @4.6.0_0
--->  Unable to deactivate phonon @4.6.0_0, the following ports depend on it:
--->  	akonadi @1.7.2_0
...
--->  	taglib-extras @1.0.1_2
Warning: Deactivate forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
--->  Cleaning phonon
--->  Uninstalling phonon @4.6.0_0
--->  Cleaning phonon
--->  Computing dependencies for phonon
--->  Fetching distfiles for phonon
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for phonon
--->  Extracting phonon
--->  Configuring phonon
--->  Building phonon
--->  Staging phonon into destroot
--->  Installing phonon @4.6.0_0
--->  Activating phonon @4.6.0_0
--->  Cleaning phonon
--->  Updating database of binaries: 100.0%
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
--->  No broken files found.



Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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