Forcing a recompilation of an installed port without uninstalling

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jan 20, 2015, at 3:18 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday January 20 2015 14:34:30 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> 
>> `port upgrade --force` is basically a `port install` that's interrupted between the install and activate phases by the deactivation of the old port.
> 
> Eh? Activating a newly installed version always deactivates the old port, if present, no?

I don't know, off the top of my head. Maybe.

>> (And it always runs, even if a suitable archive already exists.)
> 
> You mean that it always (re)creates the tarball in var/macports/software?

Yes, whereas `port install` would just extract that tarball.

vq