Re-do MacPorts after upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on PPC?

[Joshua Root]

Dave Howell wrote:
> 
> On Mar 13, 2009, at 22:47 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Then later in the list you will come to mysql5 +server and ask
>> MacPorts to install it and it will go and build the whole thing again,
>> only it won't be able to activate mysql5 +server because mysql5 with
>> no variants is already active.
>>
>> Same for php5, which will already be active with its default +apache2
>> variant so the new +apache2+mysql5 won't be able to be activated.
>>
>>
>> You would have to replicate the MacPorts dependency engine in your
>> script if you wanted to handle this correctly. But then why not
>> implement it inside MacPorts itself. Which you would be welcome to do.
>> But it's not something users need to do all that often. There are
>> other issues in MacPorts base that might be more important to fix. But
>> if you feel drawn to provide a solution for this issue in MacPorts
>> base, we could start by discussing how it might work and what the
>> command might be called.
> 
> I've kind of lost track of what's being discussed here, so if what I'm
> about to say isn't actually a similar case, then we can just move it to
> a new subject heading, but having to rebuild, oh, more or less
> everything can be required in other circumstances than just upgrading
> the OS. I spend not quite four full days trying to get MacPorts to
> install 'ntop.' One of the most exasperating failures was, after
> MacPorts had spent most of the day downloading and installing all but
> one or two of the 30+ dependent programs, it stopped cold because this
> particular program was all bent out of shape because my OSX 10.4 system
> didn't have the very most recent version of the DevTools installed.
> (2.4.1, if I recall correctly).
> 
> So I get them, and install them, and ask MacPorts to carry on. But now
> I'm getting some other error, which turns out to reflect some kind of
> library link failure. After a few hours of trying to blindly figure out
> who needed to be uninstalled and reinstalled in order to get the
> libraries to line up, I give up and uninstall everything. Even that
> failed; apparently MacPorts was linking to some part of itself. Only
> scrubbing the entire installation and reinstalling MacPorts from scratch
> allowed me to get past that problem.
> 
> Sadly, even that wasn't enough to get me a working installation of ntop.
> Ntop's port scripts are very badly broken. After MacPorts got all the
> dependencies installed, I had to then install ntop itself by hand.
> 
> But I definitely would have appreciated being able to tell MacPorts "No,
> I don't care if you *think* that everything's up to date. Please
> reinstall X, and trust me when I tell you that you need to recompile the
> entire tree of dependencies, too."

sudo port -f upgrade X

- Josh