port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

[James Berry]

On May 9, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On May 9, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Paulo Moura wrote:
>> pmmbp:~/Documents/Prolog/xsbcvs pmoura$ sudo port -f install
>> --->  Fetching xsb
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for xsb
>> --->  Extracting xsb
>> --->  Configuring xsb
>> --->  Building xsb with target all
>> --->  Staging xsb into destroot
>> --->  Packaging tgz archive for xsb 3.0.1+_0
>> --->  Installing xsb 3.0.1+_0
>> Error: Target com.apple.install returned: Registry error: xsb  
>> @3.0.1+_0 already registered as installed.  Please uninstall it  
>> first.
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>> pmmbp:~/Documents/Prolog/xsbcvs pmoura$ sudo port -p uninstall xsb  
>> @3.0.1+_0
>> Error: port uninstall failed: can't read "revision": no such variable
>
> The + in the versions is likely confusing port.
>
> You could try escaping it with a \

Actually, try doing this:

	sudo port -p uninstall xsb @3.0.1+_0/

(add a slash to the end of the version number). This disambiguates  
the version from any variants for the port. I'm not sure it'll work,  
since I'm still not sure I know where the problem is, but it's worth  
a try.

James

>> name		xsb
>> version		3.0.1+
>