Activate inactive ports without upgrading outdated dependencies

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Wed Aug 27 05:01:34 PDT 2014


Hi,

> I forgot to say that in this situation `port outdated` shows:
> 
> $ port outdated
> The following installed ports are outdated:
> C                        1 < 2
> 
> but `sudo port upgrade outdated` has no effect:

That's by design to allow you to keep older versions of a port active.
If you have the new version installed but deactivated, the "outdated"
pseudo-port will not contain the port. "port outdated", however, will.

-- 
Clemens Lang


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