On Oct 8, 2007, at 03:13, David Epstein wrote:
On 8 Oct 2007, at 08:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Oct 8, 2007, at 02:37, David Epstein wrote:
I have just started using Macports and I wonder how to get round
the following annoying problem. Each port that I download
complains about a number of files (between 5 and 35) that are
"unregistered". The install stops at every single error and
aborts. As a result, I have a great deal of manual work, deleting
these unregistered files, having to restart the install each
time. Moreover, using root privileges to delete the unregistered
files creates unpleasant opportunities for typos.
I had a glance at the macports-users archive, but couldn't find
an index. I tried Google, but couldn't find any sensible leads on
this. I read "man port", but it's unclear to me exactly what each
option does, and I'm concerned that I'll do the wrong thing.
1. Where can I find a fuller explanation of the options to "port"
than that given by "man port"?
2. How should I proceed in the light of the difficulties
explained in the first paragraph?
3. I am tempted to download the entire Darwinports/Macports tree,
but it looks as though this would take ages even without the
manual work described above.
Comments on these 3 points would be welcome.
The entire ports tree is already downloaded to your computer. I
believe it's usually in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
rsync.macports.org/release/ports. That's just the portfiles and
some patches, not the distribution source archives of each port.
Please show us the exact error messages you're getting, and what
command you've typed to receive it.
I can't reproduce these errors. I tried installing one or two
additional packages and they went through without complaint.
Luckily a small amount of evidence survives from my xterm's memory
and here it is:
hottie:~% sudo port install gnupg
---> Activating gnupg 1.4.7_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/
local/share/locale/locale.alias already exists and does not belong
to a registered port. Unable to activate port gnupg.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
hottie:~% sudo rm -i /opt/local/share/locale/locale.alias
remove /opt/local/share/locale/locale.alias? y
hottie:~% sudo port install gnupg
---> Activating gnupg 1.4.7_0
---> Cleaning gnupg
I think I would have had to rm and restart about 50 times during
installation of gnupg, but fortunately I was able to remove a whole
lot of files at once, using Unix * wildcard. Don't like using
wildcards when I'm root.
${prefix}/share/locale/locale.alias is a tricky file and there have
been problems relating to it that have been fixed in other ports.
Though I'm not sure what put it on your system in this case, since
it's not showing up registered to a port. At any rate, by my count,
over 2 dozen ports already include steps to delete locale.alias (and $
{prefix}/lib/charset.alias which is apparently equally tricky) before
the destroot phase. Perhaps gnupg should do so as well. (gnupg12
already does.) I'll Cc gnupg's maintainer.
For any other ports or files with which you were having similar
problems, show us the output.
Since not one single package I have installed has reported that it
is up to date, it looks as though I should do something like "sudo
port install all", shouldn't I?
You should certainly not "sudo port install all". You do not want to
download and compile the source of all 4300+ ports in our tree, not
to mention that some ports conflict with other ports so this is
impossible anyway, and there would be no reason to do so. You just
want to "sudo port install foo" where "foo" is whatever software you
actually want to use.
What do you mean, "not one single package I have installed has
reported that it is up to date"? Do you mean that "port outdated"
lists every one of your installed ports? Surely not... But if it
does, then you should "sudo port upgrade" each of those ports. Also,
remember to "sudo port selfupdate" often to get the latest port
definitions.
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