upgrade frenzy

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Yves de Champlain wrote:
> I have a few problems with port upgrade.
>
> First, why does it uninstall ports.  Isn't it supposed to just  
> deactivate old ports ?

it uninstalls if you use -f

> Second, things get a little weird (just the last lines of "port -f  
> upgrade pango") :
>
> Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
> --->  Deactivating cairo 1.2.4_1
> --->  Uninstalling cairo 1.2.4_1
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for pkgconfig
> Error: No checksum set for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
> Error: Target com.apple.checksum returned: Could not open file: / 
> Users/Shared/dports/distfiles/devel/devel/devel/devel/devel/devel/ 
> devel/devel/devel/pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: render pkgconfig  
> xrender
> --->  Unable to uninstall pango 1.14.2_0, the following ports  
> depend on it:
> --->    gtk2
> --->    libgnomeprint
> --->    gtk2
> Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
> --->  Deactivating pango 1.14.2_0
> --->  Uninstalling pango 1.14.2_0
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for pkgconfig
> Error: No checksum set for pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
> Error: Target com.apple.checksum returned: Could not open file: / 
> Users/Shared/dports/distfiles/devel/devel/devel/devel/devel/devel/ 
> devel/devel/devel/devel/pkg-config-0.21.tar.gz
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: Xft2 pkgconfig  
> xrender render cairo
>
> Ports get uninstalled one by one, following dependencies, but  
> everything jams on pkgconfig because category is getting stacked up  
> somewhere.

Force with upgrade will force a rebuild of all of the port's  
dependencies, and it looks like you're having failures building  
pkgconfig.

Basically, you probably don't want -f with upgrade.

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