Warning, reconsider doing an upgrade to a port

- dandunfee at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 14:27:12 PDT 2015


No, I always do an "uninstall" so port can clean up after itself.  Just 
before this happened I did a "selfupdate" without incident.

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:00 PM, - <dandunfee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And it appears it is trying to install countless ports completely
>> unrelated to the port requested.
>
>
> Did you perhaps at some point remove a bunch of things just with rm instead
> of port uninstall? My guess is rev-upgrade discovered a bunch of
> missing/broken things and set about fixing them, because the record says
> they should be installed.
>
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