question about upgrading port (getting errors)
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Jun 4 13:18:51 PDT 2007
On Jun 4, 2007, at 09:57, Evan Burrows wrote:
> Yeah I tried that the other day with no luck. Then I figured it
> out. It seems as though the fact that it was retaining my previous
> install information when I originally installed darwinports was
> what was causing the issue. After installing the new version of
> macports and doing a selfupdate left me with the same problem. It
> was late at night by the time I did that so I just wiped my
> macports install and all its references and did a fresh install and
> then just ran a quick shell script to install everything I wanted
> over night. The next day when I checked everything I created the
> startup items for the services I wanted and rebooted and I have a
> fully functional macports install again. Still a little weird why
> the uninstall never worked but it is working now so that is all
> that matters.
What do you mean, created the startup items? MacPorts should be
creating all the necessary startup items (or, rather, LaunchDaemon
plists, on Mac OS X 10.4). For which ports did you have to manually
create them?
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