cyrus-sasl2 error during install

[lo.knut@…]

--->  Installing cyrus-sasl2 2.1.21_0+kerberos darwin
Error: Target org.macports.install returned: shell command "mv /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/cyrus-sasl2/2.1.21_0+kerberos darwin/receipt.tmp /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/cyrus-sasl2/2.1.21_0+kerberos darwin/receipt" returned error 64
Command output: usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
       mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: kdebase3 cyrus-sasl2 libusb openslp
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This has been reported on the mailing list ​in June and again ​today. landonf says it's a bug introduced in base recently because it used to work and the portfile hasn't been changed.

Not many ports use the "double variant" syntax cyrus-sasl2 uses, so if the bug in base is difficult to find and fix, we could just stop using this syntax, and fix the ​http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-June/003935.htmlfew affected ports]. I'll attach a patch which would work around the problem for cyrus-sasl2.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

UNTESTED workaround for cyrus-sasl2

[jmpp@…]

Thanks for the patch Ryan! Committed in r27045, which we should all read for further details.

-jmpp

[alakazam@…]

I encountered this bug today whan trying to upgrade cyrus-sasl2 which required that I uninstall previous versions of cyrus-sasl2 to build.

% port installed cyrus-sasl2
The following ports are currently installed:
  cyrus-sasl2 @2.1.21_0+kerberos (active)
  cyrus-sasl2 @2.1.21_0+kerberos (active)

but

% ls -l /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/cyrus-sasl2
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  admin   136B 12 aoû  2007 2.1.21_0+kerberos/
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  admin   102B 11 jul  2007 2.1.21_0+kerberos darwin/

To solve this problem I ran

% sudo rm -rf /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/cyrus-sasl2/2.1.21_0+kerberos\ darwin/

and was then able to deactivate cyrus-sals2. toby suggested a better solution on irc (safer I think) :

<toby> i'm not sure if this will work, but have you tried quoting the arguments? port uninstall cyrus-sasl2 "@2.1.21_0+kerberos darwin"

[(none)]

Milestone Port Bugs deleted