On Feb 23, 2008, at 06:35, Rainer Müller wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Isn't it fine the way it works now? It's that way, I think, so >> that, if you already have foo installed, but now you want foo >> +bar, you can "sudo port install foo +bar", and it'll fetch and >> configure and build and destroot and install, however long that >> takes, and then it'll print the message that foo is already >> installed. Then you can "sudo port deactivate foo" and "sudo port >> activate foo +bar" and within a few seconds have the port swapped >> out. > > But if I already got foo, I don't want to wait for `port install foo' > take a long time just to tell me that I already got it. > > Maybe my request was not clearly phrased. If the Portfile > modification date is newer than the installation date, "port > install foo" will always begin to fetch and build, although you > can't install the exact same port/version/revision/variant twice. > Installing will just not succeed. And the time spent on building > this was most probably wasted.
Not wasted. Just deactivate the one you got and then activate the new one. > By the way, if I want a port with additional variants, I use `port - > unf upgrade foo +bar'. I didn't know that worked. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
