Using port command to see installation method

[Mircea Trandafir]

From personal experience: if you installed package X from source with a given variant(s) and an updated version of X exists in binary version for the same variant(s), then “port upgrade outdated” will install that binary version.

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On 20 Aug 2024, at 9:32 PM, Nate Ijams via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:

And I suppose one follow up, if that is the case: how are upgrades handled by MacPorts when someone has originally installed a package from source vs binary?

Take this scenario:
– Install package X from source;
– Install package Y from binary;
– Later, both packages are upgraded in the ports tree; and
– I run `port upgrade outdated`.

Will X be upgraded from source, and Y from binary, so long as I do not run the command with `-s` or `b`? Or is the history ignored, and both will be upgraded by default from binary? Or is there a different behavior?

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