-p considered problematic (was Re: how to proceed past errors?)
Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
jeremyhu at macports.org
Tue Jul 31 09:17:12 PDT 2012
On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
> <jeremyhu at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 09:41, "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
>>
>>> From the man page:
>>>
>>> -p Despite any errors encountered, proceed to process multiple
>>> ports and commands.
>>
>> That is *very* problematic. Don't do it unless you really, really, really know what it implies.
>
> Why is this considered problematic? My understanding is that this
> won't allow a port to be installed if it's dependencies fail, but will
> continue to build as many requested ports as is possible.
>
> ie: port-a depends on port-b, port-c, and port-d
>
>> port install port-a
>
> would install port -b, port-c fails, and port stops
>
>> port -p install port-a
>
> would install port-b, port-c fails, install port-d, doesn't install
> port-a because deps aren't satisfied.
>
> I've been using this flag in an automated process for quite some time.
> What problems should I be aware of with using this switch?
IIRC, the OP was talking about upgrade, not install. So in your case, you would have:
port -p upgrade upgrade port-a
This is problematic because port-a will be upgraded even through port-d failed. If port-a was rev-bumped specifically because of port-d to force a rebuild after the port-d install, this will thwart that. Luckily, rev-upgrade now exists to work around such issues these days, but I still do not recommended '-p upgrade'
--Jeremy
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