install octave fails on qrupdate

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On May 20, 2012, at 1:16 p.m., koodawg wrote:

> I thought 'port clean --all qrupdate' would remove all buildfiles related to
> qrupdate. But the Portfile remains in
> /var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/math/qrupdate/Portfile
> Why does it not remove the Portfile? If clean --all isn't cleaning
> everything, is there something more I need to do in order to rebuild so that
> the build process is starting fresh with the patched Portfile?


Portfiles are not part of builds. They aren't downloaded when you do an install; they're downloaded when you sync your ports tree via "port sync" or "port selfupdate".

"port clean" only removes work files; "port clean --all" removes distfiles and logs also.

vq