Ticket #25355 (closed defect: duplicate)
incorrect dependency on deactivated port prevents 'uninstall inactive'
| Reported by: | dports@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | 1.9.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | stephen@… | |
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Description
From ticket:20042#comment:4:
There was a minor glitch in the "upgrade -u" however, texlive_base did not get uninstalled "because texlive depends on it", which prevented texlive_texmf-{minimal,full} from uninstalling. With disk sizes these days I guess that's not a major problem, but it's a lot of MB that "upgrade -u" is supposed to help save. This would seem to be a port bug.
I noticed this too on one of my systems. In my case, it happened when, after upgrading texlive 2007 to 2009, I tried to do a port uninstall inactive
The uninstall of texlive_base failed because the installed texlive@2009 depended on it. Grovelling through the receipts (this was using the flat registry), I noticed that texlive_base was in fact recorded as a dependency for the active texlive port. It shouldn't be, although the old texlive@2007 did depend on it.
Will see if I can reproduce it reliably and gather more info.
#13054