variants and platforms should never return an error

[edewitt@…]

if you attempt to clean all uninstalled ports using the command 'port clean --archive uninstalled' you will receive the error:

Error: Error executing darwin_7: nesteedsums is not supported on Panther (OS X 10.3.x). Error: Unable to open port: Error evaluating variant

This is one example, many ports (for example GiNaC and cln) also have this problem. It is unclear why this error is occurring on my system as it is running 10.4, but clearly the ability to clean the port should not be dependent on the platform or variants and it is unclear why this parsing problem is occurring in the first place.

[nox@…]

Are you sure you're not running an outdated MacPorts installation? Please run

sudo port selfupdate

and try again.

[dluke@…]

I don't think this is a base bug, it's a bug in the ports in question.

ie, from cln:

platform darwin 7 {

return -code error "cln is not supported on Panther (OS X 10.3.x)" }

This is the same sort of thing that sometimes breaks portindex. The error return should be wrapped in the 'fetch' phase, probably.

[nox@…]

Adding the maintainers of the broken ports:

• gwright (GiNaC, cln, ghc, nestedsums)
• compconsultant (qmail-spamcontrol)

xloops is also broken, but unmaintained.

[compconsultant@…]

Yep, will take care of qmail-spamcontrol

[compconsultant@…]

qmail-spamcontrol is fixed via trac case 13972. All those changes have to be committed. I do not have commit permission.

[nox@…]

r40682