Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#48618 closed defect (fixed)
Wiki WebPage on "How to install an older version of a port" are slightly wrong or incomplete.
| Reported by: | peshola@… | Owned by: | ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | wiki | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))
URL is wiki:howto/InstallingOlderPort
The instructions don't work quite right. sudo port install works quite fine with the Portfile for boost 1.58.
However, the syntax sudo port install -no_single doesn't work. The instructions are not quite useful if I'm stuck with the default option of +no_single. I'm trying to install boost 1.58, because boost 1.59 doesn't work right.
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Component: | ports → wiki |
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| Description: | modified (diff) |
| Owner: | changed from macports-tickets@… to ryandesign@… |
| Status: | new → assigned |
| Version: | 2.3.3 |
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
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The wiki:howto/InstallingOlderPort page is accurate as far as it goes, but you're right, it does not really talk about variants.
Enabling a variant works normally, the problem only occurs when trying to disable a variant that's on by default.
The solution is to include the argument "
--" before the variants:Anyone can edit the wiki, but I'm working on rewriting the wiki page now and will incorporate this information. Thanks for pointing out this deficiency.