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

[Paulo Moura]

On 2007/05/10, at 05:58, Boey Maun Suang wrote:

> You wouldn't happen to be running MacPorts from ToT (a.k.a. trunk),  
> rather than a release version?

Nope, I'm running the latest stable one (1.440).

> James Berry has committed some changes recently that removes '+'  
> from the list of acceptable characters in port names (see top of  
> the current ChangeLog [1]).  If that's not it, I'm out of ideas :-)

That change seems (from an outsider) quite arbitrary. Certainly is  
possible to escape strings containing characters like "+"? Especially  
if a name is acceptable as file system name.

All the best,

Paulo


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