port won't upgrade

[Terry Barnum]

On Aug 13, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Aug 13, 2013, at 15:56, Terry Barnum wrote:
> 
>> 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 When I deactivate this and then activate the non-debug dspam +mysql5 (which is still at 3.10.2_1) and run port outdated, it correctly shows it as needing an update but when I run sudo port upgrade dspam it immediately displays: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 I tried sudo port clean dspam and then sudo port upgrade outdated, sudo port -f upgrade outdated, also sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants dspam +mysql5 but no joy.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 port -v outdated dspam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 mac:~ auser $ port -v outdated dspam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 The following installed ports are outdated: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   
> 
> Ok, that's what I thought.
> 
> You've run into a peculiar feature of MacPorts. You have 3.10.2_1 installed, MacPorts knows there's a newer version 3.10.2_2 available so it shows it to you in "port outdated", but MacPorts thinks there's nothing to upgrade because you've already installed 3.10.2_2, even though it's disabled and using a different variant.
> 
> If you want to install 3.10.2_2 with the mysql5 variant and without the debug variant, use:
> 
> sudo port install dspam +mysql5
> 
> Subsequent upgrades should not require that workaround.

That did it. Thank you Ryan.

-Terry

Terry Barnum
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