Re-installing a port from source

[Davor Cubranic]

No, sorry:

$ sudo port -s -n upgrade -f emacs-app
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
--->  No broken files found.

But, using "upgrade --force" did:

$ sudo port -s -n upgrade --force emacs-app
--->  Computing dependencies for emacs-app
--->  Fetching distfiles for emacs-app
--->  Verifying checksums for emacs-app
--->  Extracting emacs-app

In retrospect, I can sort of see this in the man page, but you really have to know what you're looking for... (Global switches vs. action switches can be a real pain.) Thanks for setting me on the right path.

Davor


On 2014-01-13, at 1:27 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

> Your flags swapped location:
> 
> Originally you had port upgrade -f but now you have port -f upgrade. Switching back to upgrade -f is likely all that’s wrong here.
> 
> sudo port -s -n upgrade -f emacs-app
> 
> 
> On Jan 13, 2014, at 16:24, Davor Cubranic <cubranic at stat.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 
>> I do read it more than occasionally, but it's easy to miss things in the mass of detail. Besides, it doesn't work:
>> 
>> ~$ sudo port -s -f -n upgrade emacs-app
>> --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
>> --->  No broken files found.
>> 
>> 
>> On 2014-01-13, at 12:03 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Davor Cubranic <cubranic at stat.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>> If I have an installed port and want to force re-installation from source, I can do it with 'port upgrade -s -f {portname}'. But then all of its dependencies are also re-installed from source. Why is this? I thought usually this recursive upgrade has to be forced with "--enforce-variants"? Is there a better way to do it?
>>> 
>>> upgrade checks if dependencies need to be upgraded as well. these checks are as subject to -f as the original upgrade is.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps you want the -n option. (`man port` is a good thing to read occasionally.)
>>> 
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