#39272: `-p` flag for `port` command doesn't play nice with errors resulting from mismatched requested variants vs. originally-selected variants ---------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.1.3 Keywords: | Port: ---------------------+-------------------------------- Often times I'll be installing a bunch of ports, and then MacPorts will try to install a port as a dependency with different variants than I had originally selected, for example: {{{ ---> Dependencies to be installed: git-core curl gtk2 atk gobject- introspection gdk-pixbuf2 jasper shared-mime-info xorg-libXdamage libgee librsvg libart_lgpl libcroco libgsf poppler openjpeg15 poppler-data DEBUG: Starting logging for curl DEBUG: changing euid/egid - current euid: 0 - current egid: 0 DEBUG: egid changed to: 501 DEBUG: euid changed to: 502 Error: Requested variants "+ssl+universal" do not match original selection "+ares+metalink+sftp_scp+ssl+universal". Please use the same variants again, perform 'port clean curl' or specify the force option (-f). Error: Failed to install curl DEBUG: Registry error: poppler-data not registered as installed & active. invoked from within "registry_active ${subport}" invoked from within "$workername eval registry_active \${subport}" Please see the log file for port curl for details: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_net_curl/curl/main.log Error: The following dependencies were not installed: git-core curl gtk2 atk gobject-introspection gdk-pixbuf2 jasper shared-mime-info xorg- libXdamage libgee librsvg libart_lgpl libcroco libgsf poppler openjpeg15 poppler-data }}} After that, MacPorts will continue to try to install ports, because I had the `-p` flag selected, but they all fail with the following message: {{{ DEBUG: could not set effective gid to 501 while executing "setegid $egid" (procedure "chownAsRoot" line 7) invoked from within "chownAsRoot $subbuildpath" (procedure "open_statefile" line 29) invoked from within "open_statefile" (procedure "check_variants" line 29) invoked from within "check_variants activate" invoked from within "$workername eval check_variants $target" (procedure "mportexec" line 7) invoked from within "mportexec $workername $target" Error: Unable to execute port: could not set effective gid to 501 }}} This behavior is not consistent with the behavior described in the manpage for port(1) for its `-p` flag: {{{ -p Despite any errors encountered, proceed to process multiple ports and commands. }}} -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39272> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X