Strange p5-perl-tidy upgrade to p5.12-perl-tidy (not to p5.16-perl-tidy)

[Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri]

On 23 Jul 2014, at 15:04, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Jul 23, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
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>> I’m using perltidy from p5-perl-tidy (depends on p5.16-perl-tidy), but when I decided to run a “port upgrade installed” I noticed that it was “upgraded” to p5.12-perl-tidy (which also pulled in the previously uninstalled perl5.12 port).
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>> This confuses me, especially since the p5-perl-tidy port explicitly says "Replaced by: p5.16-perl-tidy”.	
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> Confuses me too. There's nothing special about the p5-perl-tidy port to account for this, and the perl5 1.0 portgroup hasn't been changed since January. "sudo port selfupdate" and try again?
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> Also, uninstall p5-perl-tidy (and any other p5-* stub port you may have installed) and just install the p5.16-* version (or whichever perl version you want).

Did this, which seems to be the right solution. I was hoping that by installing the versionless p5- ports I would always get the latest version of the port when upgrading. I’ll scrap that idea.

Also thanks for the “port installed” tip. I’m a new MacPorts user and haven’t quite found my way around the ins and outs of the port command.

Cheers!

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>> $ sudo port -y upgrade p5-perl-tidy
>> --->  p5-perl-tidy is replaced by p5.12-perl-tidy
>> --->  Computing dependencies for perl5.12
>> For perl5.12: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
>> --->  Computing dependencies for p5.12-perl-tidy
>> --->  Dependencies to be installed: perl5.12
>> For perl5.12: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
>> For p5.12-perl-tidy: skipping org.macports.main (dry run)
>> Skipping deactivate p5-perl-tidy @20101217_3 (dry run)
>> Skipping activate p5.12-perl-tidy @20101217_3 (dry run)
>> 
>> $ port info p5-perl-tidy
>> p5-perl-tidy @20101217_3 (perl)
>> Replaced by:          p5.16-perl-tidy
>> Sub-ports:            p5.8-perl-tidy, p5.10-perl-tidy, p5.12-perl-tidy, p5.14-perl-tidy, p5.16-perl-tidy
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>> Description:          Perltidy reads a perl script and writes an indented, reformatted script. Perltidy can produce
>>                     output on either of two modes, depending on the existence of an -html flag. Without this
>>                     flag, the output is passed through a formatter.
>> Homepage:             http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/
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>> Library Dependencies: p5.16-perl-tidy
>> Platforms:            darwin
>> License:              GPL-2+
>> Maintainers:          nomaintainer at macports.org
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>> $ port list 'p5*perl-tidy*' and active
>> p5-perl-tidy                   @20101217       perl/p5-perl-tidy
>> p5.16-perl-tidy                @20101217       perl/p5-perl-tidy
>> 
>> $ port list inactive
>> # no output
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> Note that the command you want is "port installed", not "port list", which does not provide the same information; see https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#portlist
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