apache2 location

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Tue Mar 3 12:59:29 PST 2009


Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>> Maybe it should be -f -R if you want recursive.
>> There is already -R, which is recursing dependents.
> 
> So with -f and without -n or -R what happens?
> 
> Recursion just for the target port?

'port -R upgrade' will rebuild all dependents after the given port has
been upgraded. 'port upgrade' should default to recursing dependencies,
as this is usually the behavior the user wants.

The problem is that 'port -f upgrade' would force a rebuild of all
dependencies, even if they are not outdated. So usually you want to use
'port -fn upgrade' to avoid that and upgrade only the given ports. The
option -f is global and therefore used for all dependencies and phases.

Rainer


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