portupgrade, packages, and same versions

David Syphers dsyphers at u.washington.edu
Thu Dec 2 17:33:47 PST 2004


On Thursday 02 December 2004 05:23 pm, David Syphers wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 03:13 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > What command-line are you using?
>
> Oops, sorry for the noise. I just realized that I was giving the -u option
> to portupgrade, and I can understand why it can't do that without building
> the port. Doing it without -u works fine.

Or not, actually. It has nothing to do with the -u option. It fails whenever 
it has to fetch the package (which it does successfully). The next time it's 
run, when it has the package already, it succeeds. That can't be a feature, 
can it?

-David

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