I recommend blowing away all tcl files in your /opt/local tree and re-installing the MacPorts infrastructure. That should be more than enough to fix it.

Of course, I'm recommending this because I don't know the actual cause of the problem. If somebody does, I'm sure they'll have a less drastic way to fix it.

On Jan 5, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Gerrit Polder wrote:

thanks, but now the situation is even worse:

$ sudo rm -f /opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/port1.0/portuninstall.tcl

Password:

$ sudo port -f selfupdate

couldn't read file "/opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/port1.0/portuninstall.tcl": no such file or directory

    while executing

"source /opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/port1.0/portuninstall.tcl"

    ("package ifneeded" script)

    invoked from within

"package_native require portuninstall 1.0"

    ("eval" body line 1)

    invoked from within

"eval package_native $args"

    (procedure "package" line 14)

    invoked from within

"package require portuninstall 1.0"

    (file "/opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/registry1.0/registry.tcl" line 38)

    invoked from within

"source /opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/registry1.0/registry.tcl"

    ("package ifneeded" script)

    invoked from within

"package_native require registry 1.0"

    ("eval" body line 1)

    invoked from within

"eval package_native $args"

    (procedure "package" line 14)

    invoked from within

"package require registry 1.0"

    (procedure "dportinit" line 312)

    invoked from within

"dportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system, couldn't read file "/opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/port1.0/portuninstall.tcl": no such file or directory

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