Fwd: MacPorts Bug?

[Joshua Root]

C. Florian Ebeling wrote:
> This is a message from the couchdb list also involving MacPorts.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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?
> --- snip ---
> 
> 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?

Yes, it's a real problem when library versions change. Ticket:
<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17473>

- Josh