Need help / advice

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

brewerleece wrote:
> I have had mp for many, many years, and currently have mp installed on Mavericks.
>
> As of December, I am no longer able to upgrade any ports due to failures.  At the very least, I would like to upgrade some of the command line tools (e.g. ffmpeg, etc.), but when I do, mp wants to 'upgrade' other ports that cause major failures in some of my last remaining (gui) ports apps that are needed (like keepass, etc.).  I gave up on ports like 'gimp' a long time ago.
>
> Is there a way to get some of the command line tools that I use - upgraded without mp forcing me to upgrade / re-build un-related ports?
>
> Do I need some kind of isolated mp install or something?  I can provide more info if needed.

I think you need to upgrade all your ports, there might be 
inconsistencies. You can upgrade a single port with a command, but if it 
has dependencies to upgrade, macports will manage it for you. They are 
not unrelated!

If you really need an older port (e.g. because the new version doesn't 
compile on your sistem) you need to pin it in an overlay macports. But 
it still possibly need to rebuild, because a depdency has been updated.

Riccardo