Odd upgrade error

Adam Dershowitz dersh at alum.mit.edu
Sat Oct 11 22:01:58 PDT 2008



On Oct 11, 2008, at 9:54 PM, William Davis wrote:

>
> On Oct 12, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>
>> I had gimp-jp2 0.1_0 installed and just did the upgrade to  
>> 2.2.0_0.  I
>> got an odd error and I am not sure if it is port error related to jp2
>> or a more general error related to MacPorts.
>> The odd thing is that the upgrade seemed to work, so I am not sure
>> exactly what the error means, or if I should worry about it, or  
>> post a
>> ticket about it.  Here is the upgrade info:
>> --->  Fetching gimp-jp2
>> --->  Attempting to fetch jp2.tar.gz from http://registry.gimp.org/files/
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gimp-jp2
>> --->  Extracting gimp-jp2
>> --->  Configuring gimp-jp2
>> --->  Building gimp-jp2 with target all
>> --->  Staging gimp-jp2 into destroot
>> --->  Deactivating gimp-jp2 0.1_0
>> --->  Installing gimp-jp2 2.2.0_0
>> --->  Activating gimp-jp2 2.2.0_0
>> --->  Cleaning gimp-jp2
>> Error: Variant build conflicts with fetch
>> Error: Unable to open port: Error evaluating variants
>> --->  Fetching qt4-mac
>>
>> And it did seem to install properly, as did the other ports that
>> happen to be upgraded with the same: upgrade outdated.
>>
>> --Adam
>>
>
>
> I just got that error mesg when trying to upgrade gimp-user-manual.  
> Since you did a "upgrade outdated", I wonder if this is not the port  
> that the error actually occurred in.
>

I think that you are correct.  When I had done port outdated, one  
thing that showed was gimp-user-manual.  I then did port upgrade  
outdated and a bunch of things upgraded.  I saw the above error, after  
info about gimp-jp2 and before info about qt4-mac, with no mention of  
any other port, so I assumed that it related to gimp-jp2.  But, after  
I got your email I checked and found that gimp-user-manual had not  
upgraded.  So that probably was the error.  So the message was even  
more cryptic then I had thought.

That is a useful clue,

--Adam



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