port won't upgrade

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 13, 2013, at 15:00, Terry Barnum wrote:

> I think I may have screwed something up when activating and deactivating two variants of a port. On a test machine, after running sudo port -v selfupdate, I installed a second instance of a port with a debug variant (dspam +mysql5 +debug) and it properly installed it at the latest version at 3.10.2_2.
> 
> When I deactivate this and then activate the non-debug dspam +mysql5 (which is still at 3.10.2_1) and run port outdated, it correctly shows it as needing an update but when I run sudo port upgrade dspam it immediately displays:
> 
> ---> Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.00%
> ---> No broken files found.
> 
> but doesn't actually upgrade it.
> 
> I've looked through the FAQ and the docs but couldn't find this problem. I tried sudo port clean dspam and then sudo port upgrade outdated, sudo port -f upgrade outdated, also sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants dspam +mysql5 but no joy.
> 
> What else can I try?

Can you show us the output of:

port -v installed dspam
port -v outdated dspam