portmaster, renamed ports, and DEPRECATED

[Doug Barton]

On 4/19/2010 9:52 AM, Greg Larkin wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> 
> I just tried to upgrade from math/libgmp4 to math/gmp after refreshing
> my ports tree.  math/gmp has superseded math/libgmp4, so I used
> portmaster's -o option to upgrade from a new origin, e.g.:
> 
>     portmaster -o math/gmp math/libgmp4
> 
> I've done this in the past with no problem, but this time, the old port
> had already been marked DEPRECATED, and portmaster refused to continue
> the upgrade. I commented out the DEPRECATED variable in
> math/libgmp4/Makefile, and reran portmaster with no trouble.
> 
> Would it be possible to detect when -o is being used for an upgrade and
> ignore DEPRECATED on the previous port?

I'll take a look at that, thanks for letting me know.


Doug

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