reinstalling macports

[Jeremy Huddleston]

This should tell you which one is problematic:

for f in /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/*/*/receipt.bz2; do echo -n  
$f && bzcat $f | wc -l; done | grep -v ' 2$'


On Apr 22, 2009, at 14:09, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Darren Weber wrote:
>> I've got a corrupted registry (receipts).
>
> Do you know which receipt it is?
>
> I assume this the issue with using \n in the
> description/long_description as you did in your gdb port. In this  
> case,
> you could fix it by editing the receipt by hand. A valid receipt  
> should
> have only two lines. The first is the version number, the second one
> contains all the information about the port.
>
> If there was some \n in the description/long_description, these new
> lines are written into this receipt file as actual new lines. So, to  
> get
> a working receipt again, remove the new lines by joining these lines  
> to
> a single one.
>
> You will find the receipt at
> /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/<name>/<composite_version>/ 
> receipt.bz2
>
> These are compressed, but plain text. Uncompress, edit and compress
> again (or if you know vim, it will do it automatically for you).
>
> If my guess above was wrong, please show the receipt file in question
> and describe what you did.
>
> Rainer
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