multiple versions of a package?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On May 8, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Gábor Farkas wrote:
> omoikane:~ gabor$ sudo port uninstall subversion @1.4.2_0
> --->  Unable to uninstall subversion 1.4.2_0, the following ports  
> depend on it:
> --->    subversion-perlbindings

You need to use -f to force port to do this.

> 1. why do i have multiple versions of 'subversion' installed? when  
> i do 'port upgrade subversion', i assumed it installs the new  
> version and removes the old one... is that so?

Nope. Unless you pass the -u option (uninstall non-active ports when  
upgrading and uninstalling) to port, it will just 'deactivate' the  
old version (so you can quickly switch back and forth between versions).

> 2. from the messages above, on what does 'subversion-perlbindings'  
> depend exactly? on a specific version of 'subversion'? or simply on  
> 'subversion' as a package?

The dependency tracking isn't extremely smart, so it just knows that  
the subversions-perlbindings package needs a subversion package  
installed and will complain if you try to uninstall any of them (you  
can force port to ignore this with -f and prevent it in the future  
with -u).

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Daniel J. Luke
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