On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:58, Michael Jackson wrote:

I tried upgrading php5 this morning, but ran into the following error:

---> Activating php5 5.2.3_0+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5+pear +postgresql+sqlite Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ local/lib/php/.registry/structures_graph.reg already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port php5. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Any ideas what the problem is here? Obviously it has something to do with the Structures_Graph PEAR package. Should I just delete that registry file? Any help is much appreciated.

PEAR support was removed from the php5 portfile because of constant problems with files in /opt/local/lib/php already existing and not belonging to a registered port. But sometime later, someone insisted on bringing PEAR support back to the php5 portfile as a variant. I'm not using PEAR at this time, but if I ever start using it again, I'll be sure to install it manually, completely separate from MacPorts, and I recommend you do the same, and not use the +pear variant. I just don't feel it's right to have things like PEAR messing around in a directory tree (/opt/local) that MacPorts wants to completely control.