images_to_archives.tcl failure?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Jul 22 15:20:57 PDT 2011


On 2011-7-23 08:12 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> I have a fairly long-running install of MacPorts (direct mode + archivemode) on a g4 that I just upgraded to 2.0
> 
> images_to_archives.tcl failed when attempting to build a new archive of one of the installed ports (because of a missing file). I'm not sure how/why the file was missing (and it might be really old registry corruption). 
> 
> Is there something I should be doing to fix up the install to keep it limping along? The machine is probably going to be retired soon, so I'm not planning on spending a bunch of effort on it.
> 
> If I can still install new ports and uninstall what's there, I don't really care too much if other things aren't working correctly.

You could probably just create the missing file and then run the
install/selfupdate again. Alternatively you could go back to 1.9.2 and
uninstall the affected port.

- Josh


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