[MacPorts] #28634: Activating ncurses @5.8_0 fails because /opt/local/share/terminfo/a/a210 already exists

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#28634: Activating ncurses @5.8_0 fails because /opt/local/share/terminfo/a/a210
already exists
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  Reporter:  Peter_Dyballa@…           |       Owner:  jmr@…           
      Type:  defect                    |      Status:  reopened        
  Priority:  Normal                    |   Milestone:                  
 Component:  ports                     |     Version:  1.9.2           
Resolution:                            |    Keywords:                  
      Port:  ncurses                   |  
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Comment(by Peter_Dyballa@…):

 Replying to [comment:10 jmr@…]:
 > Have you confirmed that the issue is reproducible?

 No, I haven't. And I don't think I can perform this test because so many
 packages depend on that one. How could it be removed then?

 > That is, when you install and then uninstall ncurses, it leaves behind
 files? So far, all that we have is some files there that shouldn't be; no
 evidence of how they got there.

 There is one hint: Before, I had the previous version of ncurses,  @5.7_1,
 installed. Since my disk has only a few GB of free space left I deleted
 the old version already. (I know of its existence because I still have the
 little file with the list of old installed packages to be removed.) The
 update from 5.7_1 to 5.8_0 presumingly left the aforementioned files, so
 that the update failed. The quite large
 /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncurses/main.log
 file does not record any rm command, so I can't tell which files were
 removed, which files could not be removed (because they were not in the
 [AELMNPQX] directories), and which were left (because they were not in the
 [aelmnpqx] directories).

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28634#comment:11>
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