Macport outdated but not upgrade

[Adam Dershowitz]

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 04:44:45PM -0600, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>> Port outdated correctly shows that there is a new upgrade:
>> port outdated
>> openmodelica-devel             1.9.4~dev.beta1-13-g632349b_0 < 1.9.4~dev.beta1-24-g38d8642_0
>> 
>> But upgrade doesn’t do anything:
>> 
>> sudo port upgrade  openmodelica-devel 
>> Password:
>> --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
>> --->  No broken files found.                             
> 
> This behavior happens on purpose if the version you had activated at the
> time of the upgrade is not the most recent version (i.e. you had a newer
> version installed, but deactivated). Please check if that was the case
> for you. This is not a bug, but actually a supported feature that can be
> used as poor man's pinning.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Clemens

That is not the case here.  I had the newest version installed and active (beta1-13).  I then did a port sync and it found that beta1-24 was now available, as shown above.  But, it will not perform that upgrade!  If I want to have the newest version I need to first deactivate.  
Until recently they did not have beta in the name (I think that they are getting ready for a release version, so have started calling these versions “beta”).  Prior versions had names like “@1.9.4~dev-613-ga36a93f_0”  And in those cases macports did upgrade.  For every other port, and this one until recently, sudo port upgrade outdated would upgrade to the newest version if I had the prior newest version active.  

—Adam
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