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

Ryan Carsten Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed May 6 23:46:54 UTC 2026


On May 6, 2026, at 18:43, Fred Wright wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 6 May 2026, Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> The -p flag proceeds past a build failure and continues to build other ports, even if they depend on the failing port. If so, and if you
> 
> Which of course is only true because -p erroneously implies -n, instead of behaving like make's -k, which keeps single errors from blowing the whole run without ignoring dependencies.  If you want the current -p behavior, you should have to specify both -p and -n.

That seems like it would be a reasonable change... unless I'm forgetting something. 




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