images_to_archives.tcl failure?

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-7-23 08:23 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-7-23 08:12 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>> I have a fairly long-running install of MacPorts (direct mode + archivemode) on a g4 that I just upgraded to 2.0
>>>
>>> images_to_archives.tcl failed when attempting to build a new archive of one of the installed ports (because of a missing file). I'm not sure how/why the file was missing (and it might be really old registry corruption). 
>>>
>>> Is there something I should be doing to fix up the install to keep it limping along? The machine is probably going to be retired soon, so I'm not planning on spending a bunch of effort on it.
>>>
>>> If I can still install new ports and uninstall what's there, I don't really care too much if other things aren't working correctly.
>>
>> You could probably just create the missing file and then run the
>> install/selfupdate again.
> 
> Well, the selfupdate completed "successfully" (as I'm running 2.0 now), If I just try to re-run images_to_archives.tcl, I get a different failure

You can still run selfupdate again with 'sudo port -f selfupdate'.

- Josh