On 24.10.2007, at 11.19, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 24, 2007, at 03:12, Anders F Björklund wrote:
Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:
For some reason yesterday, as I was doing 'port selfupdate; port
outdated' that is quite routine for me, I ended up with error
message saying something like: port installed failed, list
element ended with } instead of space (the exact wording escapes
me at the moment).
However, the result is that I am informed I have no ports
installed! Probably I have to install all ports again from
scratch, which takes time that could be used more productively
and is a RPITA?! How could this kind of situation be avoided or
if disaster hits, how could the ports be restored? The problem is
to find all packages that are installed and active, and to find
the configuration (i.e. variants) used to build them.
I'd hope a new selfupdate could solve the problem, but I am not
optimistic.
It's possible it is "just" your port index that is broken (if you
are using SVN this happens all the time), so try rebuilding this
first by running `portindex` in your dports directory. If you are
using rsync, PortIndex should be updated too - so then it's
something else.
Remember we had that situation where trying to install gcc43 would
install a corrupted port receipt which would completely bork all
your ports. Maybe something like that happened again?
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/changeset/29009
What was the last port you updated? If you don't remember, maybe
you can find out by looking at the last modification date in the
port receipts.
Well,
a new selfupdate solved the problem, I am relieved… It would be
interesting to look for the cause of this, but unfortunately I don't
have time enough to do that, so I just hope it doesn't happen anymore…
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