Error message when nothing to upgrade?

Frank J. R. Hanstick trog24 at comcast.net
Sun Dec 28 18:39:20 PST 2008


Hello,
	Is replacing older versions with newer versions expanding the list  
of ports?
	Personally, I would prefer "everything current, nothing to  
upgrade".  That seems to me a less confusing response.
Frank

On Dec 28, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 	When I ran "sudo port upgrade outdated", I got the following  
>> message:
>>
>> Error: No ports found
>>
>> 	Is this message because no ports needed upgrading or is it because
>> the command could find no ports?  If this message is a result of the
>> former, then I think the wrong message is being displayed.
>
> This means there are no ports that need upgrading.
>
> This has already been improved in 1.7.0, as this is now a general
> message you see any time the a list of ports could not be expanded to
> any ports. I think it is some kind of error, although I understand  
> that
> you don't consider it an error when there is nothing to upgrade.
>
> Rainer



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