Help with conjoined apaches

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 28, 2012, at 22:00, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> None of these files are provided by MacPorts and files provided by apache2 and mysql5 are missing so somehow apache2 and mysql5 were most likely uninstalled by port.
>> 
>> Do you try to do a forced upgrade apache2 and mysql5 that failed? I think that would have uninstalled apache2 and mysql5 before building and installing.
> 
> I'd check the code for that one; pretty sure uninstall should never happen until immediately before activate (unless the port itself commands otherwise).

Whether intentionally or not, MacPorts was changed a few versions ago so that running

sudo port -n upgrade --force foo

will FIRST uninstall the current version of foo, THEN build the new version of foo, which might fail, leaving you with no installed version of foo.