'port upgrade foobar' upgrades everything

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Nov 7 23:08:35 PST 2013


On 2013-11-8 16:26 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:25 PM, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> 
>> I recall that 'port upgrade foobar' would only upgrade foobar
> 
> It should actually upgrade foobar and foobar's outdated dependencies, unless you pass "-n".
> 
>> but it seems that recently it'll upgrade everything.  This is happening on my PPC PowerBook that is trying to upgrade octave-devel which always fails.
>>
>> Has anybody else seen this?
> 
> I have not seen it, to my knowledge.

Could be rev-upgrade finding that some ports are broken at the end?

- Josh


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