sudo port upgrade all

[Neil]

On 30 Nov 2008, at 08:41, Joshua Root wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Well, MacPorts is not FreeBSD. :) Certainly we should make it harder
>> for people to run commands they don't mean to run in the first place.
>> So instead of changing the meaning of "all", which most MacPorts
>> users should already be familiar with, I would rather make it so that
>> "port upgrade" exits with an error message if a port is not
>> installed, rather than installing the port as it currently does.
>> However I would still welcome feedback from anyone who knows why
>> MacPorts currently does it the way it does it.
>
> Has anyone opened a ticket for this?
>
> Upgrade is a recursive procedure, and it needs to be able to install  
> new
> ports when new dependencies are added to installed ports. So that's  
> why
> it happily installs a port that isn't already installed when you  
> tell it
> to upgrade it.
>
> I assume it's just that nobody ever got around to adding a check at  
> the
> top level to make sure that the initially requested ports are already
> installed.
>
> 'port install all' and 'port install uninstalled' should also throw an
> error, unless you give it an override flag like --yes-really-all.

I'd really like to see a pretend-mode, where MacPorts shows me what it  
would do, without doing it.  Often times I'm trying to track down what  
port is causing another port to be installed, and my current method  
(guessing, installing, uninstalling, repeat) is not optimal, I don't  
think...