Portmaster error or actual bug?

Michael W. Lucas mwlucas at blackhelicopters.org
Tue Feb 26 20:36:21 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:52:49PM -0500, Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:08:59 -0500
> "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas at blackhelicopters.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Not sure if this is a bug, but it sure looks like one to me.
> > 
> > I run:
> > 
> > # portmaster -o lang/expect-devel expect-5.43.0_3
> > 
> > expecting to replace Expect 5.43 with the version in expect-devel
> > (5.44).  Instead, it reinstalls expect-5.43.
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong?  Or is this an actual bug in portmaster?
> > 
> 
> I think this has been reported and Doug Barton has a patch for it
> already:
>   
>   http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?47BF5119.2060000
> 
> I don't think its been committed yet though.

Aha!  Yes, that's my problem.

We'll give Doug a few days to commit his patch, I suppose.  ;-)

==ml

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