Fwd: MacPorts Bug?

[C. Florian Ebeling]

This is a message from the couchdb list also involving MacPorts.

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From: Ivan Avery Frey <ivan.frey at utoronto.ca>
Date: Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Subject: MacPorts Bug?
To: dev at couchdb.apache.org

I just got couchdb working again on my PowerBook G4 with Tiger (10.4.11).

What happened was after I installed couchdb I did a "sudo port -d
upgrade couchdb". The icu port got upgraded to 4.0. Now when I went to
run couchdb it went looking for 3.8 versions of the ICU libraries which
no longer existed.

A uninstall install of couchdb fixed the problem. Have I reported this
bug in the right place?
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Do we have any slick response for this, or does 'port upgrade' just keep
the dependants binaries with dangling links to nothing.

I would have thought that the nice answer would be that the dependant should
actuallt point to the depot location of the library, which should be
in the same
location after the upgrde as before. Only I'm not sure that e.g. a
autotool package
as couchdb looks into depot, and not just in /opt/local/lib.

Does a simple 'port upgrade' can leave broken packages behind? Is there maybe an
open ticket for this?

Florian












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