#29613 closed enhancement (wontfix)
extract dependency should not check version
Reported by: | hashar@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | base | Version: | 1.9.2 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
Attempting to upgrade the ImageMagick package, ports detect the p7zip extract dependency. It then attempts to upgrade p7zip although I already have it installed:
# port install ImageMagick ---> Building p7zip ^C
Some informations:
# port deps ImageMagick Full Name: ImageMagick @6.7.0-0_0+q16 Extract Dependencies: p7zip ... # port installed p7zip The following ports are currently installed: p7zip @9.13_1 (active) # port info p7zip p7zip @9.20.1 (archivers) ...
The extraction dependency should not rely on the version and it should not trigger an upgrade of the extracting package.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Component: | ports → base |
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comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
Resolution: | → wontfix |
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Status: | new → closed |
Working as intended. More broadly, the optimal behaviour would of course be not to upgrade installed dependencies on install unless needed. The obvious problem is how you can determine whether it is needed. We have no way of doing so, therefore we play it safe. You are free to use -n to override this behaviour if you are willing to accept the risk of breakage.
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by hashar@…
In this case, the extract dependency is only needed to extract an archive. Whatever version would fit the dependency, a specific version could still be required though.
At the moment, MacPorts acts like if it would request to upgrade bash + GNU core-utils just because the installed package has a shell script :-)
All dependencies would trigger an upgrade if available; not doing so would be special case code that would have to be added to the extract case.
But why shouldn't it trigger an upgrade? If an upgrade is available, we want users to install it.