Activate inactive ports without upgrading outdated dependencies

[Davide Liessi]

2014-08-26 12:41 GMT+02:00 Davide Liessi <davide.liessi at gmail.com>:
> Hi all.
> Suppose that port B depends on ports A and C, and that I did what is
> reported in this fake Terminal log:
>
> $ sudo port install B
> [...]
> $ port installed
>   A @1 (active)
>   B @1 (active)
>   C @1 (active)
> $ sudo port deactivate active
> [...]
> $ sudo port sync
> [...]
> $ port info A B C
> A @2 (...)
> [...]
> B @2 (...)
> [...]
> C @2 (...)
> [...]
>
> Now I want to activate A @1, B @1 and C @1, i.e. I want to activate
> inactive ports *without* upgrading any of them.
> I do either `sudo port activate inactive` or `sudo port -n activate
> inactive` and this is what happens:
>
> $ sudo port activate inactive
> --->  Computing dependencies for A
> --->  Activating A @1
> --->  Cleaning A
> --->  Computing dependencies for B
> --->  Dependencies to be installed: C
> --->  Fetching distfiles for C
> --->  Verifying checksums for C
> --->  Extracting C
> --->  Configuring C
> --->  Building C
> --->  Staging C into destroot
> --->  Installing C @2
> --->  Activating C @2
> --->  Cleaning C
> --->  Activating B @1
> --->  Cleaning B
> --->  Computing dependencies for C
> --->  Deactivating C @2
> --->  Cleaning C
> --->  Activating C @1
> --->  Cleaning C
>
> So in the end I get:
>
> $ port installed
>   A @1 (active)
>   B @1 (active)
>   C @1 (active)
>   C @2
>
> Is there a way to activate all inactive ports without upgrading any of them?
> In other words, is there a way to make port activate ports in the
> order of the dependencies graph instead of alphabetic order, so that
> when a port is activated all its (eventually outdated) dependencies
> are already active?

Any suggestions?

Best wishes.
Davide