Failed to open Portfile from registry

[Rainer Müller]

On 2010-04-24 00:29 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> When upgrading a port in a MacPorts prefix that had been running a
> prior version of trunk and which I just updated to the latest, I get
> this warning:
> 
> $ sudo /x86_64-10.6-mp/bin/port -u upgrade zlib
> --->  Computing dependencies for zlib
> --->  Fetching zlib
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for zlib
> --->  Extracting zlib
> --->  Applying patches to zlib
> --->  Configuring zlib
> --->  Building zlib
> --->  Staging zlib into destroot
> --->  Computing dependencies for zlib
> --->  Installing zlib @1.2.5_0
> Warning: Failed to open Portfile from registry for zlib @1.2.4_1
> --->  Deactivating zlib @1.2.4_1
> --->  Activating zlib @1.2.5_0
> --->  Cleaning zlib
> Warning: Failed to execute portfile from registry for zlib @1.2.4_1
> --->  Uninstalling zlib @1.2.4_1
> 
> 
> Is this expected?

Yes. After you converted your registry to the sqlite format there are no
Portfiles stored in the registry as that did not exist in the old
format. Conversion stores an empty string instead, resulting in this
warning as this is not a valid Portfile.

Rainer