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

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.