upgrade outdated: strange loop

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 14, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Apr 14, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Peter Koellner wrote:
>
>> I started an "upgrade outdated", and am experiencing a very strange
>> behaviour. The process seems to loop around, reinstalling perl5.8.8
>> and other packages again and again and again.
>> It started with a few compilation and activation problems, so I did a
>> few activate -f underway.
>
> That is what -f does. So you probably never want to use -f with  
> port upgrade.

Never want to use -f with port upgrade alone, I mean. Using it with  
the -n (nonrecursive) flag is fine and I do that often.

See the bottom of this message for a better way to upgrade outdated  
ports:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-April/ 
009840.html