port won't upgrade

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Aug 13, 2013, at 8:13 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> 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 - Run port upgrade outdated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.

The brokenness of this use case seems to mainly inconvenience MacPorts developers, whereas breaking Ryan's use case could be a hassle for MacPorts users.

vq