On Sun, 18 Jan 2026, Clemens Lang wrote:
On 18. Jan 2026, at 18:40, Fred Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
And since the revbump doesn't involve new distfiles, the revbummped
ports will often be updated without updating the openssl3 port,
probably creating inconsistencies.
This only happens if you run `port upgrade` with `-p`. The manpage
explicitly tells you not to do that for exactly this reason:
WARNING: This option is harmful to upgrade and should be avoided at all
cost. Often, MacPorts ports are only upgraded to rebuild them against
updated dependencies. Specifying this flag will cause a spurious rebuild
if a dependency of a port fails to build and leave your system in a
broken state once the dependent port is fixed.
Using `port upgrade outdated` without `-p` is essentially useless on older
platforms due to all the broken ports. Not using `-p` is also problematic
because it even avoids upgrading ports that *don't* depend on the failed
ones, stopping on *any* failure.
Another issue with `-p` is that the final exit status is based on whether
the *last* operation failed, rather than whether *any* operation failed.
Fred Wright
