<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">After upgrading to Yosemite today, I had to upgrade macports, so I’ve been following instructions as per<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration" class="">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I reinstalled Xcode ok, and the command line tools. Accepted the license, then began on macports itself.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I installed macports base package from the .pkg file recommended which went ok</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">then the first two steps of the port upgrades<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><pre class="wiki" style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); margin-right: 1.75em; margin-left: 1.75em; padding: 0.25em; overflow: auto; font-size: 13px;">port -qv installed > myports.txt</pre><div class="">and</div></div><div class=""><pre class="wiki" style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); margin-right: 1.75em; margin-left: 1.75em; padding: 0.25em; overflow: auto; font-size: 13px;">port echo requested | cut -d ' ' -f 1 > requested.txt</pre><div class="">both went ok, then</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre class="wiki" style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border: 1px solid rgb(215, 215, 215); margin-right: 1.75em; margin-left: 1.75em; padding: 0.25em; overflow: auto; font-size: 13px;">sudo port -f uninstall installed</pre><div class="">went ok spewing out lots of info about the packages it was deactivating, as far as the following line, and then it hung</div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Andale Mono'; color: rgb(41, 249, 20); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">---> Deactivating boost @1.56.0_1+no_single+no_static+python27</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and that’s it. I can’t get past it. I can ctrl-c out of it, and restart it, but it hangs in the same place. Lots of other packages have been deactivated and deinstalled no problem up to this point.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any ideas please? Can I force the removal of this package from the database, so the rest of the uninstalls can proceed, for instance?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">one thing I’ve noticed is that if I do</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">port info boost, it tells me about a slightly different version number, as follows</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">$ port info boost</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">boost @1.56.0_2 (devel)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Variants: debug, [+]no_single, [+]no_static, python25, python26,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> [+]python27, python31, python32, python33, python34,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> regex_match_extra, universal</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Description: Boost provides free portable peer-reviewed C++ libraries.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> The emphasis is on portable libraries which work well with</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""> the C++ Standard Library.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Homepage: <a href="http://www.boost.org" class="">http://www.boost.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Library Dependencies: zlib, expat, bzip2, libiconv, icu, python27</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Platforms: darwin</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">License: Boost-1</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Maintainers: <a href="mailto:nomaintainer@macports.org" class="">nomaintainer@macports.org</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any help gratefully received. My machine’s a mid-2009 MBA, 2G RAM, 2.13GHz Intel core2 duo, by the way.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">N.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>