#14321: Moving from Darwin Ports to MacPorts: Registry corruption ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: jlnicolson@gmail.com | Owner: macports-tickets@lists.macosforge.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: High | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- I am using Mac OS X Tiger. I have used darwinports for a long time. I upgraded to macports a couple of months ago, I regularly saw error messages such "this port is already installed" when upgrading my packages I uninstalled then reinstalled the package. This has been fine until now, I had tetex installed when I tried to install texlive, I had to remove tetex, when I did this a registry error occured. I assumed my registry was corrupted and did the following: sudo rm -rf ${prefix} \ /Applications/MacPorts \ /Applications/DarwinPorts \ /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \ /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \ /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \ /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \ /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \ /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \ /etc/manpaths.d/macports \ /etc/paths.d/macports When trying to install the latest macports the installer kept reporting "please try installing again", when I run from the command line I get this: james@edufb12@02:47 pm:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/installer -dumplog -verbose -pkg /Volumes/MacPorts-1.6.0/MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg -target /Volumes/sally/ installer[1950]: Localized installer scripts detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode. installer[1950]: Distribution: MacPorts installer: Package name is MacPorts installer: Installing onto volume mounted at /. installer: Preparing for installation..... installer[1950]: Localized installer script preflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode. installer[1950]: Localized installer script postflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode. installer[1950]: Starting installation: installer: Preparing the Disk..... installer[1950]: Preparing volume "sally" for installation installer: Preparing Target Volume installer[1950]: Configuring volume "sally" installer[1950]: Preparing local booted disk #installer[1950]: Create temporary directory "/private/tmp/MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg.1950ATfxuo" installer: Preparing MacPorts..... installer: Running MacPorts Installer script installer[1950]: run preflight script for MacPorts installer[1950]: Localized installer script preflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode. installer[1950]: Install failed: The following install step failed: run preflight script for MacPorts installer: The install failed. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14321> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS