On Jan 17, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2016-01-17 18:13, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> 1. Each time I upgrade any ports, automatically MacPorts notices that >> the port for qt4-mac is broken and attempts to build it again. >> >> Is there any way to do upgrades of other points without the >> time-consuming (always failing) attempt to rebuild qt4-mac? > > sudo port [upgrade|install] --no-rev-upgrade > >> 2. I’d try to uninstall qt4-mac and re-install the older version that, I >> believe, was unbroken. But there are a whole bunch of other ports that >> depend on it. How may I get around uninstalling those dependent ports >> and reinstalling them later? (I believe I need to use a “-f” parameter >> but otherwise am uncertain how to do this.) > > You probably still have the older qt4-mac installed, so you can simply > reactivate it: > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort#reactivate > <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort#reactivate>
The older qt4-mac (qt4-mac @4.8.7_2) is still active. It just won’t upgrade to current version. > > Why is the build of qt4-mac failing? You should rather get that fixed in > order to get the latest version. > > Rainer --- Murray Eisenberg [email protected] 503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240 Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
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