On Jul 22, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
> On 2011-7-23 08:12 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> I have a fairly long-running install of MacPorts (direct mode + archivemode) 
>> on a g4 that I just upgraded to 2.0
>> 
>> images_to_archives.tcl failed when attempting to build a new archive of one 
>> of the installed ports (because of a missing file). I'm not sure how/why the 
>> file was missing (and it might be really old registry corruption). 
>> 
>> Is there something I should be doing to fix up the install to keep it 
>> limping along? The machine is probably going to be retired soon, so I'm not 
>> planning on spending a bunch of effort on it.
>> 
>> If I can still install new ports and uninstall what's there, I don't really 
>> care too much if other things aren't working correctly.
> 
> You could probably just create the missing file and then run the
> install/selfupdate again.

Well, the selfupdate completed "successfully" (as I'm running 2.0 now), If I 
just try to re-run images_to_archives.tcl, I get a different failure

> Alternatively you could go back to 1.9.2 and
> uninstall the affected port.

I might end up doing that (or blowing away the install and just re-installing 
all of the ports I was using on that machine).

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