recent dependency tracking issue on trunk

[Jonathan Stickel]

On 7/12/10 08:00 , macports-dev-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:51:28 +1000
> From: Joshua Root<jmr at macports.org>
> To: Jeremy Huddleston<jeremyhu at macports.org>
> Cc: MacPorts Development<macports-dev at lists.macosforge.org>
> Subject: Re: recent dependency tracking issue on trunk
> Message-ID:<4C39F690.8040900 at macports.org>
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> 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
>

I experienced this also:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2010-July/020882.html

It seemed to result for me after I installed a Macports upgrade manually 
(from the tarball with configure, make, make install).  After 
reinstalling using "port selfupdate", it went a way.  I guess something 
funny is going on as a result of my personal bash environment vs. that 
used by port.

Jonathan