port -nf upgrade doesn't

[ryandesign@…]

To force a port to rebuild when MacPorts doesn't think it needs to, I have always used "port -nf upgrade". This does not appear to be working now with MacPorts 1.8.0 and Snow Leopard:

$ sudo port -nfd upgrade zlib
DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/archivers/zlib
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: zlib 1.2.3_2 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: zlib 1.2.3_2  is the latest installed
DEBUG: zlib 1.2.3_2  is active
DEBUG: Merging existing variants  into variants
DEBUG: new fully merged portvariants: 
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/archivers/zlib
DEBUG: OS Platform: darwin
DEBUG: OS Version: 10.0.0
DEBUG: Mac OS X Version: 10.6
DEBUG: System Arch: i386
DEBUG: setting option os.universal_supported to yes
DEBUG: org.macports.load registered provides 'load', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.unload registered provides 'unload', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.distfiles registered provides 'distfiles', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Reading variant descriptions from /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports/_resources/port1.0/variant_descriptions.conf
DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port zlib.
DEBUG: Requested variant i386 is not provided by port zlib.
DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port zlib.
DEBUG: Not following dependencies
DEBUG: No need to upgrade! zlib 1.2.3_2 >= zlib 1.2.3_2
$

[jmr@…]

Working as intended, see the ChangeLog.