[MacPorts] #15868: port-1.600: port sync fails with "please get a newer Subversion client"

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:58, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>
>> bzip2 is essential for dealing with receipts, yes, but bzip2, gzip
>> and tar are also essential for decompressing the vast majority of
>> distfiles. We've seen failures at extract time when a user migrated a
>> bzip2 from a previous Mac's MacPorts installation that got broken.
>
> In my opinion decompressing distfiles is not vital. When the  
> registry is
> broken, it is hard to get it fixed agin. But if a decompressor (tar,
> gzip, bzip2) is broken, it's easy to deactivate this port and use the
> one from the system.

However, MacPorts does not issue an error message if the decompressor  
fails. The first error message the user sees is during the configure  
phase when it can't find the files that should be there. This is  
confusing.

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16223