port outdated command works propely after Porticus being installed.
Kuniaki Mukai
mukai at sfc.keio.ac.jp
Tue Mar 10 09:43:48 PDT 2009
On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
> 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 the 'port outdated' command has given nothing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 'port outdated' shows many outdated ports information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 How can MacPorts's 'outdated' command be made to work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?
Yes, I did. I will do it for sure whether it is reproducible even now
or not.
K. Mukai
>
> - Josh
>
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