Re: port selfupdate fails

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Long
On 15 Aug 2011, at 21:12, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2011, at 13:36, Andrew Long wrote: > >> On 15 Aug 2011, at 18:52, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> > > The perl5 portgroup was just hours ago converted into a new unified format > which is probably going to cause some issues for a few mome

Re: Error: Unable to open port: invalid command name "installs_libs"

2011-08-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 15, 2011, at 08:22, Andrew Todd wrote: > Aug 15 09:14:54 LM-BWI-00712218 installd[4041]: ./postflight: ---> > Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync > > After this, I can't quit the installer because "the installer is > busy." Presumably there's nothing else of importance in the postf

Re: port selfupdate fails

2011-08-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 15, 2011, at 13:36, Andrew Long wrote: > On 15 Aug 2011, at 18:52, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > >> On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Andrew Long wrote: >>> >>> Can someone please tell me where to look for the log, so I can have a try >>> at self-diagnosing, or perhaps tell me where to look for wh

Re: port selfupdate fails

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Long
On 15 Aug 2011, at 18:52, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Andrew Long wrote: >> >> Can someone please tell me where to look for the log, so I can have a try at >> self-diagnosing, or perhaps tell me where to look for what the *real* >> problem is? > > I'm not sure where t

Re: port selfupdate fails

2011-08-15 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Andrew Long wrote: > > Can someone please tell me where to look for the log, so I can have a try at > self-diagnosing, or perhaps tell me where to look for what the *real* problem > is? I'm not sure where the log is (someone else probably knows and can tell you), b

port selfupdate fails

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Long
I've just tried to self update the ports tree from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1, and it has failed *again* This has happened to me for over a year now; the symptoms is that it tells me the following:- Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate ---> Updating the port

Re: Error: Unable to open port: invalid command name "installs_libs"

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Todd
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I am surprised a force-quit was necessary. What was the last thing in the > installer's log window when this occurred? Didn't know that there was an installer log. Makes me feel a little better about Macs (I'm coming from Linux) -- at least