[MacPorts] #18408: Cannot upgrade mercurial (macports wants to reinstall latest dependencies)

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#18408: Cannot upgrade mercurial (macports wants to reinstall latest dependencies)
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 Reporter:  apple@…               |       Owner:  deric@…           
     Type:  defect                |      Status:  new               
 Priority:  Normal                |   Milestone:  Port Bugs         
Component:  ports                 |     Version:  1.7.0             
 Keywords:                        |        Port:  mercurial         
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Comment(by apple@…):

 Replying to [comment:3 snc@…]:
 > Cc Me!
 {{{
 The portfile was the latest because I ran selfupdate before I tried to
 upgrade initially.

 grendel% port selfupdate

 MacPorts base version 1.700 installed
 Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.700

 The MacPorts installation is not outdated so it was not updated
 grendel% diff
 /DooDad/Backups.backupdb/grendel/2009-02-06-003745/Bede/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/dev$
 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/mercurial/Portfile
 grendel%
 }}}
 DooDad is my Timemachine drive

 By the way, I finally did a manual upgrade of the port (stepping through
 each phase of the build and discovered that configure is not in the the
 tarball for the port.  But macports calls it anyway. Stopping the build.
 The prefix variable in the mercurial Makefile and setup.py is still set
 to /usr/local (there are no patches).  I think the problem I am having
 is at a lower level than the mercurial port, but the port itself does
 not appear to be correct for the tarball being downloaded.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18408#comment:4>
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