Horrible problems after moving /opt/local aside

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 15:55, David Epstein wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Please make a new Terminal window and try it again.
>>
>> sudo port clean --work freetype
>> sudo port install freetype
>>
>> If you get the same error, then do it again with debug output and
>> show it to us.
>>
>> sudo port clean --work freetype
>> sudo port -dv install freetype
>
> Sigh of relief!! When deadlines loom, one doesn't necessarily do  
> the right
> thing.
> I have been trying too many things to be clear about what happened,  
> but,
> anyway
> your clean command seems to have been what I was failing to do,  
> after my
> original sin of putting stuff into /opt/local/bin from /opt/ 
> local.old/bin.
> I have managed now to install some of the things gv depends on,  
> which is a
> big advance, but I haven't yet had a go at gv. I decided that since  
> there
> might be various junk lying around, I should install the  
> dependencies one at
> a time, starting each with a clean. Anyway, I feel I am now a long way
> forward, knowing about the clean.
>
> Question: would it have worked just to clean gv, or would gv  
> dependencies
> have remained dirty?

That would only have cleaned gv; the dependencies would have remained  
how they were (whether that was dirty or clean).

You might be able to:

sudo port clean --work all