On Nov 13, 2014, at 5:28 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> I just did an overdue selfupdate, and ran into an issue that obliged me to
> images_to_archives.tcl step manually. For example:
>
> Processing 132 of 947: gsed-4.2.2_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2
> Command failed: /usr/bin/tar -cjf
> /opt/local/var/macports/software/gsed/gsed-4.2.2_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 -T
> /opt/local/var/macports/software/gsed/tarlist >
> /opt/local/var/macports/software/gsed/error.log 2>&1
> Exit code: 1
> command execution failed
> while executing
> "system "$tarcmd -cjf $newlocation -T ${targetdir}/tarlist >
> ${targetdir}/error.log 2>&1""
> ("foreach" body line 78)
> invoked from within
> "foreach installed $ilist {
> incr counter
> set iname [lindex $installed 0]
> set iversion [lindex $installed 1]
> set irevision [lindex $inst..."
> (file "./src/images_to_archives.tcl" line 38)
>
> I checked a couple of the error logs and tarballs in macports/software, and
> it seems this was "only" about missing translation files. I know I have at
> times gone into /opt/local/share/locale and deleted useless locale
> directories (that really adds up).
> I initially tried to unblock the situation by deactivating the offending port
> (here gsed) and then reactivating it, but apparently the archive tarball had
> already been recreated because reactivation failed because of those same
> missing translation files. I certainly did not recreate (all) those tarballs
> myself after pruning the locale directory ...
>
> In the end I just wrote a script that evoked tcl images_to_archives.tcl as
> long as it exited with non-zero status, assuming that whatever issue that
> would lead to would be corrected at the next ugrade of the affected port.
>
> But I've never ran into this before, so what is this apparently new step
> about?
images_to_archives.tcl is rather old at this point -- over 3 years old. It
dates from the release of MacPorts 2.0.0 (2011-07-22), since which time
"archives" mode is always on. Prior to that, users could choose "images" mode
or "archives" mode, with "images" mode as the default. images_to_archives.tcl
converts an "images"-based MacPorts installation to an "archives"-based one.
> As a subsidiary question: do I provoke source-only upgrading by adding a
> configure.optflags option to `port upgrade outdated` or will the option be
> ignored if a port has binary packages available?
You request a from-source build by either adding the "-s" flag on the command
line every time you install or upgrade (e.g. "sudo port -s install ..." or
"sudo port -s upgrade ..."), or by setting "buildfromsource always" in
macports.conf.
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