strange errors on port upgrade

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat May 26 11:30:00 PDT 2007


On May 26, 2007, at 12:44, paul beard wrote:

> On May 26, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Pierre Queinnec wrote:
>
>> paul beard wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like port is choking on the presence of README file?
>>>
>>> white:~ root# port upgrade outdated
[snip]
>>> --->  Staging freetype into destroot
>>> Error: Target com.apple.destroot returned: xinstall: Cannot stat:  
>>> Readme, No such file or directory
>
>> Probably case-sensitiveness?
>
> %&&**()+(*&^*^*(*&()&*))(*(_&*&(^(*&(*)
>
> Gosh, I hope not ;-) Shouldn't have come up before, since these are  
> updates to installed ports?

Previous versions of the portfile did not attempt to install those  
documentation files. That is what was changed in freetype 2.3.4_1:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/25598

The portfile was indeed attempting to install "Readme", but only  
"README" exists. I have now fixed this:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/25619




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