[MacPorts] #15056: Defects with macports install/uninstall/portfile/registry

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#15056: Defects with macports install/uninstall/portfile/registry
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 Reporter:  lorddefinitia at gmail.com                                |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
     Type:  defect                                                 |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                                                 |   Milestone:  MacPorts base bugs                   
Component:  ports                                                  |     Version:  1.6.0                                
 Keywords:  Install failure, activation failure, portfile failure  |  
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 I know little about the MacPorts structure, so I am rather helpless with
 understanding what exactly the bug is. My best attempt at describing my
 situation follows.

 I was attempting to upgrade macports and my installed ports the other day,
 using port upgrade all, not realizing that all meant all possible ports. I
 cancelled the process a couple hours(I went away to do other tasks) later,
 when my hard drive was nearly full, and performed port clean all to
 attempt to clean out whatever had been left around by the unfinished
 process. I then attempted a port upgrade installed, however this command
 too failed due to limited HD space and the subsequent clean operation I
 performed failed as well due the same reasons. As I had no immediate space
 available, I resorted to manually deleting the files that had been most
 recently created on the computer which I could be sure were only macports
 related files.

 However after having free up my drive in this manner and later freeing it
 up more through other methods, I have been getting frequents errors such
 as this one:

 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
 /opt/local/lib/libopencdk.10.0.6.dylib already exists and does not belong
 to a registered port.  Unable to activate port opencdk.

 or

 --->  Fetching libtasn1
 --->  Attempting to fetch libtasn1-1.3.tar.gz from
 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/releases/libtasn1/
 --->  Verifying checksum(s) for libtasn1
 --->  Extracting libtasn1
 --->  Configuring libtasn1
 --->  Building libtasn1 with target all
 --->  Staging libtasn1 into destroot
 --->  Installing libtasn1 1.3_0
 --->  Activating libtasn1 1.3_0
 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Registry error: libtasn1
 @1.2_0 not registered as installed.

 In addition, port list installed fails with an error like this one:

 Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port installed failed: Registry error: gnutls
 @2.2.0_0 not registered as installed.

 Which I have been trying to fix by installing the uninstalled package,
 which then complains a previous version is not installed and so the new
 version can't be activated, or an image already exists and so it can't be
 installed, or some such error. However, after I have done this, port list
 installed no longer has a problem with the port that could not be
 installed.

 Unfortunately this was working until I was unable to install one of these
 non-installed packages due to dependencies that won't install.

 In addition, it says there is a problem with my portfile in my home
 directory?

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/15056>
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