#13313 closed defect (fixed)
variants and platforms should never return an error
| Reported by: | eejd | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | High | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | parsing variant | Cc: | nox@…, gwright@…, compconsultant@… |
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Description
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.
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Change History (10)
comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by nox@…
| Cc: | nox@… added |
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| Milestone: | → MacPorts base bugs |
| Summary: | BUG: 'port clean' depends on variant of uninstalled ports! → 'port clean' depends on variant of uninstalled ports! |
comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by jmpp@…
| Component: | ports → base |
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comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)
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.
comment:4 Changed 16 years ago by nox@…
| Cc: | gwright@… compconsultant@… added |
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| Component: | base → ports |
| Milestone: | MacPorts base bugs → Port Bugs |
| Summary: | 'port clean' depends on variant of uninstalled ports! → variants and platforms should never return an error |
| Version: | 1.5.0 |
Adding the maintainers of the broken ports:
- gwright (GiNaC, cln, ghc, nestedsums)
- compconsultant (qmail-spamcontrol)
xloops is also broken, but unmaintained.
Changed 16 years ago by nox@…
| Attachment: | port.errors added |
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comment:5 Changed 16 years ago by nox@…
| Priority: | Normal → High |
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comment:7 Changed 16 years ago by compconsultant@…
qmail-spamcontrol is fixed via trac case 13972. All those changes have to be committed. I do not have commit permission.
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