On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:02 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I rely on ports to detect things which
>> must be updated due to dependencies. so I naively would have thought
>> that if, e.g. xpdf depdends on libtool and that one is to old, it
>> should
>> have been updated first automatically? where's my error here?
>
> I'm not sure. Possibly nothing. I haven't gone back to test whether
> MacPorts properly attempts to upgrade dependencies before upgrading
> the port you requested.
I had occasion to test this today and as far as I can tell it should
work. Here, mpfr depends on gmp, both are outdated, and asking port
to upgrade mpfr does correctly upgrade gmp first.
$ port deps gmp mpfr
gmp has no dependencies
mpfr has library dependencies on:
gmp
$ port outdated gmp mpfr
The following installed ports are outdated:
gmp 4.2.2_2 < 4.2.3_0
mpfr 2.3.1_0 < 2.3.2_0
$ sudo port upgrade mpfr
---> Fetching gmp
---> Attempting to fetch gmp-4.2.3.tar.bz2 from http://ftp.gnu.org/
gnu/gmp
---> Verifying checksum(s) for gmp
---> Extracting gmp
---> Configuring gmp
---> Building gmp with target all
---> Staging gmp into destroot
---> Deactivating gmp 4.2.2_2
---> Installing gmp 4.2.3_0
---> Activating gmp 4.2.3_0
---> Cleaning gmp
---> Fetching mpfr
---> Attempting to fetch mpfr-2.3.2.tar.bz2 from http://www.mpfr.org/
mpfr-2.3.2/
---> Verifying checksum(s) for mpfr
---> Extracting mpfr
---> Configuring mpfr
---> Building mpfr with target all
---> Staging mpfr into destroot
---> Deactivating mpfr 2.3.1_0+darwin_i386
---> Installing mpfr 2.3.2_0+darwin_i386
---> Activating mpfr 2.3.2_0+darwin_i386
---> Cleaning mpfr
$
This was tested on MacPorts built from trunk. I did not test with
MacPorts 1.6.0; perhaps something has been fixed on trunk related to
this.
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