selfupdate always updates macports bases even if the installed version is the latest

[Fred Wright]

On Wed, 6 May 2026, Giuseppe Miceli wrote:

> on a specific machine, everytime i selfupdate macports, it detects correctly the installed macports base versions installed and available and even if they are the same version it updated macports base (see iterm dump below pasted).
>
> don’t know if it’s my fault or some stale file around or else? am i supposed to open a ticket on trac or is it a trivial thing?
>
> thank you very much in advance,
> —
>
> ferdy at kamikaze:~$ sudo port -svpf selfupdate && port outdated
[...]

It's doing exactly what you told it to do with -f.

Also note:

-s is a NOP on selfupdate, since it (unfortunately) always builds from 
source.

-p is probably a NOP, since AFAIK, selfupdate is treated as a single 
operation.

Fred Wright