port outdated failure message

[Valentin Kuznetsov]

What I meant by "quite old" is that I installed a long time ago, but  
I was
following port selfupdates on a regular basis.
V.

On May 25, 2007, at ,May 25, 9:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On May 25, 2007, at 20:03, Valentin Kuznetsov wrote:
>
>>>> vk at localhost(16:01:04)> port -v outdated
>>>> Error: port installed failed: list must have an even number of  
>>>> elements
>>>> No ports are installed.
>>>
>>> I don't know why. Maybe you have an old version of MacPorts, and  
>>> maybe the recent changes to the portindex weren't as backward- 
>>> compatible as we thought they were. Please try updating MacPorts.  
>>> "sudo port selfupdate"
>>
>> that doesn't help, I tried multiple times. selfupdate went fine  
>> and I still got this message. The one is true, that my ports quite  
>> old, they're actually darwin ports.
>
> I just want to be absolutely clear here: Which version of MacPorts  
> are you running? The current version is 1.4.42, also known as  
> 1.442. If you selfupdate, you should see this:
>
> $ sudo port selfupdate
> Password:
> DarwinPorts base version 1.442 installed
> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.442
> The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated
> selfupdate done!
>
> Note: I recently changed "DarwinPorts" to "MacPorts" in this  
> message, so MacPorts 1.4.43 should have the correct text.
>