port -u upgrade outdated

[Thomas De Contes]

Le 4 oct. 07 à 02:51, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :

> On Oct 3, 2007, at 19:27, Thomas De Contes wrote:
>
>> Le 4 oct. 07 à 02:11, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
>>
>>> On Oct 3, 2007, at 18:54, Thomas De Contes wrote:
>>>
>>>> there is still a minor problem : waste of disk space
>>>> since each old version remains on the disk, whereas they are  
>>>> completely useless :-/
>>>>
>>>> do you see what i mean ?
>>>> well, is there some guys who work on macports, who would like to  
>>>> look at this problem, to allow us to make a script which  
>>>> automatically updates macports without waste of disk space ?
>>>
>>> Then uninstall those old versions if you do not want them anymore.
>>>
>>> $ sudo port -f uninstall foo @1.2.3_0
>>>
>>> Or, when you do the upgrade, use the -u switch to tell MacPorts  
>>> you would like it to uninstall the old version for you.
>>>
>>> $ sudo port -nfu upgrade foo
>>
>> do you mean that i should put
>> port -nfu upgrade outdated
>> in my script ?
>
> I cannot assist you with your script; all I can do is tell you how  
> MacPorts works. And I'm saying that if you have "foo 1.2.1_0"  
> installed and active, and you say "sudo port -nf upgrade foo" to  
> get 1.2.3_0, then you will have 1.2.3_0 installed and active, and  
> 1.2.1_0 installed and inactive. If you would like to remove  
> 1.2.1_0, you have two options. Either you can use -u when you  
> upgrade: "sudo port -nfu upgrade foo", or after you upgrade, you  
> can uninstall: "sudo port -f uninstall foo @1.2.1_0".

the problem is, to make a script, i cannot suppose that i will have  
to remove that version of that port


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