images_to_archives failed during selfupdate

[johnrosshunt@…]

port selfupdate fails when upgrading from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 on OS X Lion 10.7.3/Xcode 4.3. Details are in attached file.

[johnrosshunt@…]

selfupdate log

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The relevant lines in the log are:

/usr/bin/tclsh src/images_to_archives.tcl "/opt/local/share/macports/Tcl"
This could take a while...
Processing 1 of 462: zlib-1.2.6_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2
sh: line 0: cd: /opt/local/var/macports/software/zlib/zlib-1.2.6_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2: No such file or directory

And the question then is: does that file actually exist? If not, are there any similar files there?

[johnrosshunt@…]

Indeed it does:

macmini ~ $ ls -las /opt/local/var/macports/software/zlib/zlib-1.2.6_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2
328 -rw-r--r--  1 macports  staff  166610 Feb 17 19:01 /opt/local/var/macports/software/zlib/zlib-1.2.6_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2
macmini ~ $ 

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

What do you get from port location zlib? The command that's failing is inside if {$location == "" || ![file isfile $location]} {, and location is "" only if $installtype != "image".

[johnrosshunt@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

What do you get from port location zlib? The command that's failing is inside if {$location == "" || ![file isfile $location]} {, and location is "" only if $installtype != "image".

/opt/local/var/macports/software/zlib/zlib-1.2.6_0.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Can't really do much here without being able to reproduce the failure, unfortunately.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

This happens when archives in /opt/local/var/macports/software are deleted without uninstalling ports. I don't think is an issue any more, since the ticket is three years old by now.