system_x11 variant ignored during upgrade

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:23:26PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel said:
> I am attempting to upgrade my outdated ports, and am curious to see how  
> the newly implemented "system_x11" variant will work.  I upgraded with:
>
> $ sudo port -u upgrade outdated
>
> and sure enough, one of my outdated ports depends on xorg-libX11.  
> However, the system_x11 variant was ignored, even though I have it set in 
> /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf.  If I install xorg-libX11 directly 
> by
>
> $ sudo port install xorg-X11
>
> then it seems to work.  Is this a bug that I should report on the tracker?

Sounds like #8221:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/8221>

Fortunately, fixed on trunk so it should be part of 1.8.

Bryan


>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan