On Jul 10, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jul 10, 2007, at 18:49, Chris Waterson wrote:
Hi there! I've been using macports for some time now, and one thing
that is frustrating is the fact that port upgrade leaves crufty old
variants behind.
You mean: crufty old versions behind. variants has a different
meaning for MacPorts.
Thank you for the quick response...you're right: I meant versions.
I've tried:
port -uR upgrade outdated
in the hopes that -u would uninstall non-active ports when
upgrading and uninstalling (as claimed by the man page) and that
combining it with -R would also upgrade dependents (by which I
was
hoping upgrade meant rebuild with the newer variant).
Here I don't know what you mean by variant. If you're talking
about variants in the way that MacPorts defines that term, then
upgrade will only retain the set of variants with which you
originally installed the port. If you now want to have a different
set of variants on a port, then your only option is to completely
uninstall (or at least deactivate) the existing port, and then
install it with the variants you now want.
Again, my confusion. I meant version where I said variant.
I wasn't familiar with -R. You're right, I see it's in the manpage.
But MacPorts follows dependencies by default, so I don't think you
need -R.
This doesn't seem to be the case, but leads to lots of extra warnings
during my upgrade, for example, the following (five times, or so):
Error: Uninstall sqlite3 3.3.17_0+darwin_8 failed: Please
uninstall the ports that depend on sqlite3 first.
--- Unable to uninstall sqlite3 3.3.17_0+darwin_8, the
following ports depend on it:
---apr-util
At which point, for each piece of cruft, I wander through all the
dependents by hand, uninstall each, then uninstall the old variant,
then re-install each dependent.
Surely I am doing something wrong. Can someone vend me a clue?
I recommend you do the following (substituting any other port name
for sqlite3 as desired):
sudo port -u upgrade sqlite3
If you encounter an error that says it's required for other ports,
then force the upgrade:
sudo port -ufn upgrade sqlite3
If other ports depend on sqlite3, then you need to force (-f) the
uninstall. However, then you'll also want the nonrecursive flag (-
n), else MacPorts will rebuild all of sqlite3's dependencies too,
possibly even multiple times, which is just a waste of your time.
The latter is a bug:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/10827
Since you normally do want MacPorts to follow dependencies if
necessary, you should always first try just upgrading with -u, and
only if that fails, switch to -unf.
The fact that apr-util is listed five times in your output instead
of once is also a bug:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/8763
Okay, thanks for the pointers.
I did take a stab at port -ufn upgrade, but that seemed to *still*
not get rid of the dependency. As the below trace shows:
1. I can't uninstall gd2 @2.0.34_0 because gnuplot depends on it.
2. Rebuilding either gd2 or gnuplot does not clear the dependency.
3. But the dependency is (seems?) false, since I can port uninstall -
f gd2 @2.0.34_0 and gnuplot will still run. I suppose it's possible
that gd2 is dlopen'd and gnuplot will fail splendidly later.
Anyway, it seems like there might just be some issues with dependency
tracking.
Thanks for your help!
chris
~$ sudo port uninstall gd2
--- The following versions of gd2 are currently installed:
---gd2 @2.0.34_0
---gd2 @2.0.35_0 (active)
Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
version as recorded in the port registry.
~$ sudo port uninstall gd2 @2.0.34_0
--- Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.34_0, the following ports depend on
it:
---gnuplot
Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend
on gd2 first.
~$ sudo port -ufn upgrade gd2
--- Configuring gd2
--- Building gd2 with target all
--- Staging gd2 into destroot
--- Packaging tgz archive for gd2 2.0.35_0
--- Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.35_0, the following ports depend on
it:
---gnuplot
Warning: Uninstall forced. Proceeding despite dependencies.
--- Deactivating gd2 2.0.35_0
--- Uninstalling gd2 2.0.35_0
--- Installing gd2 2.0.35_0
--- Activating gd2 2.0.35_0
--- Cleaning gd2
~$ sudo port uninstall gd2
--- The following versions of gd2 are currently installed:
---gd2 @2.0.34_0
---gd2 @2.0.35_0 (active)
Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
version as recorded in the port registry.
~$ sudo port uninstall gd2 @2.0.34_0
--- Unable to uninstall gd2 2.0.34_0, the following ports depend on
it:
---gnuplot
Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend
on gd2 first.
~$ sudo port uninstall gnuplot
--- Unable to uninstall gnuplot 4.2.0_0, the following ports depend
