fontconfig activation error with flat registry

[toshi.swd@…]

Doing 'port install fontconfig +universal' failed as the followings:

% sudo port install fontconfig +universal
--->  Computing dependencies for fontconfig
--->  Fetching fontconfig
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for fontconfig
--->  Extracting fontconfig
--->  Applying patches to fontconfig
--->  Configuring fontconfig
--->  Building fontconfig
--->  Staging fontconfig into destroot
--->  Installing fontconfig @2.8.0_0+universal
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Registry error: Please specify the name of the port.

I attached the log file.

[toshi.swd@…]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm afraid I don't have any idea what that error means in this context. Anybody else know?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Show the output of port installed fontconfig please.

[toshi.swd@…]

% port installed fontconfig
The following ports are currently installed:
  fontconfig @2.8.0_0 (active)
  fontconfig @2.8.0_0+macosx (active)
  fontconfig @2.8.0_0+universal

I tried to uninstall @2.8.0_0 and @2.8.0_0+macosx using -f option, but failed with the similar error message.

Error:  Registry error: Please specify the name of the port.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Interesting. It should of course not be possible for more than one instance of a port to be active at the same time. We used to record platforms (like "macosx") in the list of variants in the registry, but we no longer do in the current version of MacPorts. I wonder if this could explain how this situation arose (since the two instances that are active here are effectively the same thing, one of them in the old notation (with +macosx), the other in the new notation (without it)).

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I'm guessing you're using portdbformat flat? You'll want to edit the receipt for whichever variant isn't actually active and change 'active 1' to 'active 0'. And then switch to sqlite; that will be the only choice as of the next release anyway, so bugs in the flat registry basically aren't going to get fixed.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Assuming that was it...