eel fails to upgrade | 2.22.1_0 < 2.24.1_0 | 10.4.11 PPC

[Rainer Müller]

Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:16:37PM +0100, Tobias Weisserth said:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> a lot of Gnome related ports still fail utterly when trying to upgrade.
>>
>> I am trying to upgrade eel on a PowerBook with the latest MacPorts (details
>> in the subject line).
>>
>> When I run 'sudo port -fun upgrade eel' I get this:
>>
> 
> Any particular reason why you use -n when doing this?  It tells port not to
> do dependencies, and since gnome-desktop is a dependency of eel, it isn't
> being upgraded, and hence, fails.

It is a bad idea to use -f without -n, because it would force a rebuild
of all dependencies.

Safest way is still:
sudo port upgrade eel
sudo port -f uninstall inactive

Rainer