Deactivating the installed version before trying to install the update

[Joshua Root]

On 2014-1-20 15:03 , Adam Mercer wrote:
> So I've been trying to use something like this, namely:
> 
> pre-configure {
>   # bug in swig bindings that causes build to fail if previous version is active
>   if {![catch {set installed [lindex [registry_active lal] 0]}]} {
>     registry_deactivate_composite lal "" [list ports_nodepcheck 1]
>   }
> }
> 
> But this is failing with the following:
> 
> --->  Configuring lal
> --->  Deactivating lal @6.11.0_2+swig_python
> Error: org.macports.configure for port lal returned: sqlite error:
> unable to open database file (14) while executing query: UPDATE
> registry.files SET active=0 WHERE actual_path=? AND id=?
> Please see the log file for port lal for details:
>     /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_Users_ram_git_mp_testing_science_lal/lal/main.log
> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>     http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
> Error: Processing of port lal failed
> 
> With nothing extra in main.log, clearly I'm doing something wrong here
> but can't see it.

You can't modify the registry when privileges have been dropped.

- Josh