port -f upgrade <port> rebuilds already installed stuff

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote:
> I recall that using port -f upgrade outdated would do this (reinstall
> stuff that was not outdated) but that, until today, performing the
> same command on an individual port would only install what was
> out-of-date. Today, however, when I upgrade the few ports that were
> outdated, lots of stuff was rebuilt, some of it for every port I
> upgraded.
>
> What changed to cause this? I'm pretty sure this is new.

This has been the behavior for a while (since 1.3 or so, IIRC).

You probably want the -n option in addition to -f.

port -nf upgrade outdated
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