upgrading Gnucash

[Joshua Root]

Lenore Horner wrote:
> Gnucash ate a bunch of data _again_ (I've asked the Gnucash user group
> about that, so far without much luck) so I thought perhaps I should
> upgrade my current installation to the latest release.
> 
> I had the following installed.
> gnucash @2.2.7_2+without_hbci+without_ofx+without_quotes (active)
> 
> I upgraded with the following command.
> sudo port upgrade gnucash +without_hbci+without_ofx+without_quotes
> 
> Now it's installing gwenhywfar which I thought wasn't supposed to be
> needed with all the withouts I installed with.  In fact gwenhywfar was
> inactive under the previous installation.  Does upgrading kill off the
> options?  Does the new version no longer have those options?
> 
> gwenhywfar @3.5.1_0
> (It was there because I misspelled before and had without_hcbi and then
> inactivated that and installed as above.)

You're hitting this bug: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/8221> (fixed
in trunk). Uninstall/install instead of using upgrade will work around it.

You don't have to specify the same variants when you upgrade BTW, your
selected variants will be preserved.

- Josh