port fails to list installed ports

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Tue Sep 11 13:25:34 PDT 2007


On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Eckhard Wiemann wrote:
> It may be that I damaged the registry of my port system. Is there  
> any way to repair it

There are no tools to do so.

If you know tcl and are motivated, you could probably fix it "by hand".

If you end up writing a tool that is helpful, it may be a nice  
feature addition to 'port' (and/or a nice additional program we could  
ship).

> or have I to reinstall the whole software tree?

This is, by far, the easiest option.
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