Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:42:06 +0400 From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: yuri@tsoft.com, David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: portupgrade fails to upgrade the package because the older version is installed Message-ID: <487B499E.60705@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <487B45D8.2040808@icyb.net.ua> References: <48753715.10601@tsoft.com> <200807092249.06852.david@vizion2000.net> <4875C5D2.70003@tsoft.com> <48777A03.2060205@icyb.net.ua> <4877D82C.6030309@FreeBSD.org> <487A3ADD.3000707@icyb.net.ua> <487B3938.80805@FreeBSD.org> <487B3C7A.9030800@icyb.net.ua> <487B3F1A.3090002@FreeBSD.org> <487B4097.4040803@icyb.net.ua> <487B440D.7020405@FreeBSD.org> <487B45D8.2040808@icyb.net.ua>
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Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 14/07/2008 15:18 Sergey Matveychuk said the following: >> version 2.8 is alway > than 2.6. So you must use -f option here: >> >> portupgrade -fo www/neon26 neon28 >> >> portupgrade will no update ports on older version if you did not force it. >> > > yes, -f does the job, thanks! > But, on the other hand, hmm, aren't we comparing versions of an apple > and of an orange here? > I think we already had this discussion. neon26 and neon28 are two > different ports (and packages). Yes, they happen to share "neon" in > their names, moreover, they happen to actually be the same software. But > still they are two distinct port. > E.g. what if I used portupgrade -o to switch between devel/fam and > devel/gamin. I've already had talk about this issue. But portupgrade was designed this way. Unfortunately I have no time to rewrite the code. Sorry. -- Dixi. Sem.
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