upgrade outdated example

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 19:32, Tom Allison wrote:

> Randy Bush wrote:
>>> while there exist an outdated port
>> and how do i know the list of outdated ports?
>> randy
>
>
> port outdated
>
> in theory the upgrade process is:
>
> port upgrade outdated
> or
> port -u upgrade outdated (uninstall old versions)
>
>
> But I have a lot of stuff that I couldn't release.
> So I did a number of them as port -f uninstall...
>
> But that just sounds like I'm waiting to break something doing this.

It is currently necessary to force the uninstall of ports on which  
other ports depend.