Ports not listed as outdated
Lawrence Velázquez
larryv at macports.org
Wed Apr 22 10:36:03 PDT 2015
On Apr 22, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> Maybe I need to explain a bit more.
>
> I have a sparse SVN checkout configured as:
> file:///Users/me/app/macports/trunk/dports [nosync]
>
> I used [nosync] because I'm often bitten by failures during svn
> updates when my local changes conflict with upstream changes in the
> repository and I prefer to solve those manually, not during "port
> selfupdate".
>
> I ran "svn up" in "~/app/macports/trunk", but I didn't run portindex.
> The texlive-bin port was one of those ports in my sparse checkout
> (maybe I initially even forgot to run "svn up"). From my understanding
> that fully explains the situation. Apparently I run portindex often
> enough that I have never been bitten by this particular type of the
> problem in years.
Yes, this explains it. Simply running `port upgrade foo` will evaluate your local portfile and correctly perform the upgrade, but the "outdated" pseudoport used by `port upgrade outdated` is computed using the portindex.
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