recent dependency tracking issue on trunk

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Jul 11 09:51:28 PDT 2010


On 2010-7-12 02:29 , Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> A problem uninstalling seems to have crept into trunk.  From my testing, this seems to be a printing issue (the wrong port is being printed in the list of dependencies) because other leaf ports are easily removed.
> 
> $ sudo port -v uninstall netcdf
> --->  Unable to uninstall/deactivate netcdf @4.1.1_0+dap+openmpi, the following ports depend on it:
> --->  	netcdf @4.1.1_0+dap+openmpi
> Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on netcdf first.

I haven't seen this in normal use and can't reproduce it with a couple
of simple test ports. Need more info to narrow down the configuration
that causes it.

- Josh


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