Upgrade confusion

[Altoine Barker]

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I see this behavior often enough to know that the best way to prevent
this is to actually run this command 'port -uvfn upgrade gnucash'. HTH

- -Altoine


Mike Alexander wrote:
> Something is confused in my MacPorts setup.  After a selfupdate tonight
> (which got version 1.4) it tries to upgrade the same ports over and over
> again, even though they don't need upgrading.  For example when I
> execute "port -uf upgrade gnucash" I get the sequence
> 
> --->  Deactivating expat 2.0.0_1
> --->  Uninstalling expat 2.0.0_1
> --->  Installing expat 2.0.0_1
> --->  Activating expat 2.0.0_1
> 
> I've seen this for expat about 6 times so far, and similar things happen
> with many other ports.  At least it's not rebuilding the ports, so it
> doesn't take too long.
> 
> Also, it tries to install XFree86 even though I have Apple's X11
> installed (correctly I think, I've been using it for years and have
> installed many ports that depend on it).  After telling me it won't
> install XFree86 because I have X11 installed, it then proceeds to
> install it anyway.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what is wrong?
> 
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