ok. i installed MacPort 1.6.0 in top of the old installation but while the old ports are still installed (good) the new macports installation doesn't recognize them as it's own. Is there a way to "tric" the new installation into recognizing the ports currently installed? Thank you. Marco
On Jul 11, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > There were initial problems building MacPorts 1.6.0 on Panther. > These were resolved in order to produce the Panther disk image > packages. I'm surprised these changes were not merged back for the > selfupdate system. > > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-January/ > 004084.html > > > Yes, you should be able to download the MacPorts 1.6.0 Panther disk > image and install it over the top of what you have on your system > now. Your existing ports will not be affected. > > > On Jul 11, 2008, at 14:16, Marco Battistella wrote: > >> Hi, >> i just ran a selfupdate in a system that had not been updated for >> awhile and got a bunch of errors (listed at the end of the message). >> with a quick search i found: >> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-tickets/2007-December/ >> 001608.html >> which seems to be pretty much the same issue i'm having. >> Now my question is: if I download the latest package and install it >> would it remove/delete the ports that i have already installed? >> I don't think it makes a difference for this specific question, >> (while it obviously does for the error) but i'm running Panther. >> thank you, >> Marco >> >> >> ---- >> here is the transcript i get when i try selfupdate >> >> sudo port selfupdate >> DarwinPorts base version 1.442 installed >> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600 >> Configuring, Building and Installing new MacPorts base >> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Error installing new >> MacPorts base: shell command "cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/ >> rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/base && ./configure --prefix=/ >> opt/local --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with- >> tclpackage=/Library/Tcl && make && make install" returned error 2 >> Command output: registry.c:305: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use >> in this function) >> registry.c:306: error: request for member `status' in something not a >> structure or union >> registry.c: At top level: >> registry.c:321: error: parse error before '*' token >> registry.c: In function `reg_start_write': >> registry.c:322: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> registry.c:323: error: request for member `status' in something not a >> structure or union >> registry.c: At top level: >> registry.c:333: error: parse error before '*' token >> registry.c: In function `reg_end': >> registry.c:334: error: request for member `status' in something not a >> structure or union >> registry.c:335: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> registry.c:341: error: request for member `db' in something not a >> structure or union >> registry.c:341: error: `query' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> registry.c:342: error: `SQLITE_OK' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> registry.c:345: error: `SQLITE_BUSY' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> registry.c:346: error: request for member `db' in something not a >> structure or union >> registry.c: At top level: >> registry.c:359: error: parse error before '*' token >> registry.c: In function `reg_commit': >> registry.c:360: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> registry.c:361: error: request for member `status' in something not a >> structure or union >> registry.c: At top level: >> registry.c:376: error: parse error before '*' token >> registry.c: In function `reg_rollback': >> registry.c:377: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this >> function) >> registry.c:378: error: request for member `status' in something not a >> structure or union >> make[2]: *** [registry.o] Error 1 >> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 >> make: *** [all] Error 1 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
