dependency confusion between py26-setuptools and py26-distribute

[jabronson@…]

I just tried doing a port uninstall inactive, and when it got to py26-setuptools, it failed with:

--->  Unable to uninstall py26-setuptools 0.6c11_0, the following ports depend on it:
--->      py26-virtualenv
--->      py26-simplejson
--->      py26-jinja2
--->      py26-pygments
--->      py26-pyflakes
Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on py26-setuptools first.

Next I ran:

$ port info py26-virtualenv
py26-virtualenv @1.4.5 (python, devel)
Variants:             universal
...
Library Dependencies: python26, py26-distribute

And lo, py26-setuptools isn't actually listed as a dependency.

I currently have the most up-to-date versions of py26-distribute and py26-setuptools. Please let me know how to get this in order. Ideally I'd only need py26-distribute, and could uninstall py26-setuptools entirely, but I'll settle for whatever keeps everything consistent (that is, not contradicting itself).

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Most probably #13054. Just use force for this one, but consider switching to portdbformat sqlite in your macports.conf.

[jabronson@…]

Replying to raimue@…:

Most probably #13054. Just use force for this one, but consider switching to portdbformat sqlite in your macports.conf.

Before I try with -f, I'd like to see if I can get it working without it. I switched to sqlite, rebuilt the port registry, and ran port uninstall inactive again, but it looks like it cached the failed result. If so, is there a way to clear the cache and try again (without -f)?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

There isn't a "cache" per se. If the deps were wrong in the flat registry, they're still wrong after migrating it to sqlite. They will however be correct after upgrading to a new version of a port when using sqlite.

[jabronson@…]

I just force uninstalled the few incorrectly-registered ports I had (py26-setuptools, texlive_base, texlive_texmf-docs) and then the "uninstall inactive" worked. Thanks for the quick help!