On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:40, Peer Stritzinger wrote: > after a pause I wanted to update my outdated ports, so I tried the usual > steps: > > I did a port selfupdate: > > MacPorts base version 1.9.2 installed, > MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded. > ---> MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.0.3 > > and the tried a port upgrade which came to a stop with the following error > message: > > ---> Building perl5 > ---> Staging perl5 into destroot > ---> Installing perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12 > ---> Activating perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12 > Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p > is being used by the active perl5.8 port. Please deactivate this port first, > or use 'port -f activate perl5' to force the activation. > Log for perl5 is at: > /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_perl5/perl5/main.log > Error: Problem while installing perl5 > To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets> > > I tried the deactivation suggestion of the error message first: > > yrael:~ peer$ sudo port deactivate perl5.8 > > ---> Deactivating perl5.8 @5.8.8_3+darwin_8+darwin_9 > ---> Unable to deactivate perl5.8 @5.8.8_3+darwin_8+darwin_9, the following > ports depend on it: > ---> autoconf @2.62_0 > ---> automake @1.10.1_0 > ---> help2man @1.36.4_1 > ---> intltool @0.40.5_0 > ---> p5-locale-gettext @1.05_0 > ---> p5-xml-parser @2.36_0 > Error: port deactivate failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on > perl5.8 first.
The correct solution was to upgrade perl5.8 first. sudo port upgrade perl5.8 Then the perl5.12 upgrade would have succeeded. > Since this didn't seem to help I tried the "-f activate" path: > > yrael:~ peer$ sudo port -f activate perl5 > ---> Computing dependencies for perl5 > ---> Activating perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12 > ... a bunch of warnings about existing files followed. Now that you've forced the activation, some things may be out of place. I'd do the following to ensure it's fixed: sudo port -f deactivate perl5.12 perl5.8 sudo port upgrade perl5.12 perl5.8 sudo port activate perl5.12 @5.12.3_2+universal perl5.8 @5.8.9_5 > Trying to continue with the upgrade resulted in the next error message: > > ---> Activating gettext @0.18.1.1_2 > ---> Cleaning gettext > ---> Computing dependencies for help2man > Error: Dependency 'p5.12-locale-gettext' not found. > Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 > To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets> > > I found a ticket that mentions this error message but there was no solution > how to fix this in a installation. Your first selfupdate updated the version of MacPorts base. You must now run selfupdate a second time so that your ports get indexed properly. Your previous version of MacPorts did not include instructions to do that, but the current version does. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
