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

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:02:54PM +0100, Rainer Müller said:
> 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.
> 

I take it this is working as expected (or at least as I seem to expect it) on
trunk?

Bryan


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