id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,port
8221,RFE: port upgrade should consider variants when computing dependencies,ryandesign@…,gwhitney@macports.org,"apr-util usually depends on db4, but if you install apr-util with the +no_bdb variant, this deletes the db4 dependency. This is how I installed my apr-util 1.2.2, and this is how I want it. I do not want db4 on my system.

Attempting to upgrade apr-util to 1.2.6 wants to install db4, however. It seems that port upgrade doesn't use the variants that were specified in the last install when computing the needed dependencies.

I brought this up on the mailing list:

http://opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2006-April/033312.html

Daniel J. Luke suggested I provide the output of port -d -v upgrade apr-util so here it is:

{{{
$ sudo port -d -v upgrade apr-util
Password:
DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/devel/apr-util
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: apr-util 1.2.6_0 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: apr-util 1.2.2_1 is installed
DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/devel/apr
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: apr 1.2.6_0 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: apr 1.2.6_0 is installed
DEBUG: No need to upgrade! apr 1.2.6_0 >= apr 1.2.6_0
DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/textproc/expat
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: expat 2.0.0_1 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: expat 2.0.0_1 is installed
DEBUG: No need to upgrade! expat 2.0.0_1 >= expat 2.0.0_1
DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/textproc/libiconv
DEBUG: epoch: in tree: 0 installed: 0
DEBUG: libiconv 1.10_1 exists in the ports tree
DEBUG: libiconv 1.10_1 is installed
DEBUG: No need to upgrade! libiconv 1.10_1 >= libiconv 1.10_1
DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/databases/db4
DEBUG: db4 is *not* installed by DarwinPorts
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/databases/db4
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: db4
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: db4
DEBUG: Requested variant powerpc is not provided by port db4.
DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port db4.
DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port db4.
DEBUG: Executing variant darwin_8 provides darwin_8
DEBUG: Skipping completed com.apple.main (db4)
DEBUG: Skipping completed com.apple.unarchive (db4)
--->  Fetching db4
DEBUG: Executing com.apple.fetch (db4)
--->  db-4.3.29.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/db4/4.3.29
--->  Attempting to fetch db-4.3.29.tar.gz from http://downloads.sleepycat.com/
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  1 5803k    1   98k    0     0  31625      0  0:03:07  0:00:03  0:03:04 61949^C
}}}

He also suggested I upgrade with -n (skipping the dependencies) which was a successful workaround.",enhancement,closed,Normal,MacPorts 1.8.0,base,,fixed,,ryandesign@… jmr@… vinc17@… aetherknight@… korpios@… devans@… adambyrtek@… list-ener@… coda.hale@… mjs@…,