port won't upgrade

[Terry Barnum]

On Aug 13, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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 When I deactivate this and then activate the non-debug dspam +mysql5 (which is still at 3.10.2_1) and run port outdated, it correctly shows it as needing an update but when I run sudo port upgrade dspam it immediately displays: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 I tried sudo port clean dspam and then sudo port upgrade outdated, sudo port -f upgrade outdated, also sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants dspam +mysql5 but no joy.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 port -v outdated dspam

mac:~ auser$ port -v installed dspam
The following ports are currently installed:
  dspam @3.10.2_1+mysql5 (active) platform='darwin 11' archs='x86_64'
  dspam @3.10.2_2+debug+mysql5 platform='darwin 11' archs='x86_64'

mac:~ auser $ port -v outdated dspam
The following installed ports are outdated:
dspam                          3.10.2_1 < 3.10.2_2       


Terry Barnum
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