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From: Barry McInnes <Barry.J.Mcinnes@noaa.gov> Date: December 13, 2007 10:03:10 CST To: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> Subject: Re: invalid command name on some downloads

On 12/12/07 7:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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On Dec 12, 2007, at 17:05, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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On Dec 12, 2007, at 13:51, Barry McInnes wrote:

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We have a clean install of 10.5 and update to 10.5.1. macport version [mac27:~/sun/info] bmcinnes% port --version MacPorts 1.520

Some installs work, others don't

[mac27:~/sun/info] bmcinnes% sudo port uninstall gimp Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: gimp not registered as installed.

That looks normal to me. Or did you believe you had the gimp port installed? What is the output of "port installed"?

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[mac27:~/sun/info] bmcinnes% sudo port install gimp2 Error: Unable to execute port: invalid command name "destroot.violate_mtree" [mac27:~/sun/info] bmcinnes% sudo port install gnuplot Password: Error: Unable to execute port: invalid command name "destroot.violate_mtree" [mac27:~/sun/info] bmcinnes%

destroot.violate_mtree was added in MacPorts 1.5.1 and improved quickly in 1.5.2.

You installed 1.5.0 from the disk image for Leopard, I presume? Did you then "sudo port selfupdate" to upgrade to 1.5.2? I mean, "port" says you're running 1.520, a.k.a. 1.5.2, but its behavior matches that of 1.5.0. So this is odd.

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I have reinstalled Xcode 3.0, done port sync, looked through archives, but there seems to be no total solution ?

The total solution for 'invalid command name "destroot.violate_mtree"' should be to update to MacPorts 1.5.2 by using "sudo port selfupdate".

I've just read in our new guide that the installer runs "selfupdate" for you, which explains why you would already have 1.5.2 right after installing 1.5.0 from the disk image. Still, please try running "selfupdate" yourself to see if that changes anything.

I removed existing install, and did a change location to the partition. I still have a sym link from /opt/local, and I needed to create /Volumes/partition/opt/local before it would install. Anyway it installed, and it did install 1.52, by default which is different, as previously I had to run selfupdate, but the first test failed

[mac27:/opt] root# cd local [mac27:/opt/local] root# ls -l total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 root 80 238 Dec 13 08:55 bin drwxrwxr-x 3 root 80 102 Oct 27 15:56 etc drwxrwxr-x 2 root 80 102 Oct 27 15:56 include drwxrwxr-x 2 root 80 102 Oct 27 15:56 lib drwxrwxr-x 2 root 80 102 Oct 27 15:56 libexec lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 9 Dec 13 08:55 man -> share/man drwxrwxr-x 2 root 80 102 Oct 27 15:56 sbin drwxrwxr-x 6 root 80 204 Oct 27 15:56 share drwxr-xr-x 3 root 80 102 Dec 13 08:55 var [mac27:/opt/local] root# port selfupdate MacPorts base version 1.520 installed Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.520 The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated selfupdate done! [mac27:/opt/local] root# port install pstoedit Error: Unable to execute port: invalid command name "destroot.violate_mtree" [mac27:/opt/local] root#