> Sounds like you had an old (very old) MacPorts installation that needed > to be updated, so it was dutifully doing that.
No, not true - I update at least every few weeks. This morning it did install a newer version of MacPorts, but I was only one version behind. It *is* true that I've been using MacPorts for a long, long time, basically since it started, but I completely reinstalled from scratch when I updated to Snow Leopard. And my last selfupdate was less than a month ago. > If `du -sh /opt/local` says you've got more than a couple megabytes > installed, things aren't actually uninstalled. $ du -sh /opt/local 1.6M /opt/local Note that this is *after* most of the installer script has finished. It's still spinning it's wheels trying to run the postflight script. Since 1.6M is the expected size of a clean macPorts install, I'm pretty sure there aren't any ports in there yet. Glen -- Glen Henshaw g...@toadhill.net On Mon, Mar 19, 2012, at 09:41 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > > the installer hung at > > > > ./postflight: Updating port image format… > > Sounds like you had an old (very old) MacPorts installation that needed > to be updated, so it was dutifully doing that. If you had many packages > installed, converting from the old flat file format may indeed take > hours. > > > So eventually I manually uninstalled MacPorts altogether, following the > > documented instructions. And now, when I try to run the installer - > > after a fresh reboot - it still hangs in exactly the same spot. Just sits > > there. For as long as I'm willing to stare at it, apparently. On my last > > attempt, I let it run for nearly thirty minutes. Nothing. > > If `du -sh /opt/local` says you've got more than a couple megabytes > installed, things aren't actually uninstalled. Since it seems the > installation was so old you may have forgotten about it, you might as > well just blow the whole thing away and deal with any non-/opt/local > collisions as they arise (by issuing `port -f activate X` at the time). > > I'd see if there are any other suggestions before blowing the whole thing > away, but my guess is you have a lot of very old packages installed > still. > > Email had 1 attachment: > + smime.p7s > 12k (application/pkcs7-signature) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
