On Jan 20, 2015, at 3:15 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday January 20 2015 14:22:23 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>
>> And `port upgrade` preserves the variant selection of the
>> currently-installed port, while the other subcommands do not.
>
> Hmm, how? By looking at the registry or by looking at the .macports*state
> file if it exists?
By looking at the registry. If you have `foo +a` installed, running `port
upgrade --force foo` will reinstall `foo +a`. To get the same behavior
"manually", you'd have to explicitly do something like
% sudo port destroot foo +a
% sudo port deactivate foo
% sudo port install foo +a
> It happens that I change a variant in there and then clean the state up to
> and including the configure step, before proceeding to the destroot and
> afterwards an uninstall/install. But mostly I simply rebuild the code after
> point changes to the source directory, so an upgrade would be fine.
I don't really understand where the state file comes into this. We are talking
about rebuilding and reinstalling a port that is already installed.
vq
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