port won't upgrade

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Tue Aug 13 17:13:16 PDT 2013


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 06:55:25PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I don't know but it seems useful in the following scenario: […]

I agree there's a use-case for this behavior, but I can just aswell
provide a use-case that is broken by this behavior:
 - (Work on an upgrade for port foo)
 - (Test this upgrade by) running the installation up to (including) the
   archiving: sudo port archive foo
 - (Commit the change to foo)
 - (Run portindex)
 - Run port upgrade outdated
 -> foo isn't upgraded.

-- 
Clemens Lang



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