Trouble updating my ports, how to fix this?

[Peer Stritzinger]

Hi,

after a pause I wanted to update my outdated ports, so I tried the usual
steps:

I did a port selfupdate:

    MacPorts base version 1.9.2 installed,
    MacPorts base version 2.0.3 downloaded.
    --->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.0.3

and the tried a port upgrade which came to a stop with the following error
message:

--->  Building perl5
--->  Staging perl5 into destroot
--->  Installing perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12
--->  Activating perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
/opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please
deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate perl5' to force the
activation.
Log for perl5 is at:
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_perl5/perl5/main.log
Error: Problem while installing perl5
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I tried the deactivation suggestion of the error message first:

yrael:~ peer$ sudo port deactivate perl5.8

--->  Deactivating perl5.8 @5.8.8_3+darwin_8+darwin_9
--->  Unable to deactivate perl5.8 @5.8.8_3+darwin_8+darwin_9, the following
ports depend on it:
--->   autoconf @2.62_0
--->   automake @1.10.1_0
--->   help2man @1.36.4_1
--->   intltool @0.40.5_0
--->   p5-locale-gettext @1.05_0
--->   p5-xml-parser @2.36_0
Error: port deactivate failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on
perl5.8 first.

Since this didn't seem to help I tried the "-f activate" path:

yrael:~ peer$ sudo port -f activate perl5
--->  Computing dependencies for perl5
--->  Activating perl5 @5.12.3_1+perl5_12
... a bunch of warnings about existing files followed.

Trying to continue with the upgrade resulted in the next error message:

--->  Activating gettext @0.18.1.1_2
--->  Cleaning gettext
--->  Computing dependencies for help2man
Error: Dependency 'p5.12-locale-gettext' not found.
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I found a ticket that mentions this error message but there was no solution
how to fix this in a installation.

Is there a way to fix the installation to be current and further upgradable?

Cheers
-- Peer
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/attachments/20110926/cdef9c09/attachment.html>