upgrading MacPorts after updating from 10.6 to 10.9 - missing gnutar?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 19, 2014, at 08:37, Clemens Lang wrote:

> `sudo port selfupdate` will only fix this, if the current version of base is actually outdated, i.e. if you had 2.2.0 installed before upgrading to Mavericks. If you already had 2.2.1 installed before the OS upgrade, selfupdate will not reconfigure/rebuild and this will not work. That's why I suggested using `sudo port -f selfupdate`, which skips the version check and forces the rebuild, but I now realize this might not have triggered a re-configure either.

Why wouldn’t “sudo port -f selfupdate" have triggered a re-configure and re-build? I thought that’s exactly what it would do.