port outdated command works propely after Porticus being installed.

[Joshua Root]

Kuniaki Mukai wrote:
> I installed so far more than 400 ports. Thanks for Macports.
> For these months, may be  more than a half of a year,
> the 'port  outdated' command  has given nothing 
> to me whenever I checked.  Although it was 
> strange, but I persuaded myself to think MacPorts 
> were now so stable that no update was neccessary.
> 
> However, after I installed recently the Porticus application, 
> I found that every time  after doing the selfupdate menu
> of the application, the same command 
> 'port  outdated' shows  many outdated ports information 
> to update.  It seems  as if macports does not work 
> properly without the Porticus.
> 
> How can MacPorts's  'outdated' command be made to work 
> properly without helps of other applications ? 
> As a fact of matter, I am  afraid that some files of Macports
> of my mac are broken. 
> 
> MacOSX 10.5.6 

Did you ever run `sudo port selfupdate` or `sudo port sync` before
installing Porticus?

- Josh