"port installed" fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:00, Eckhard Wiemann wrote:

> in order to repair my port-system I removed completely the whole  
> software-branch "/opt" and reinstalled MacPorts (1.52 on my Intel- 
> MacBook with Mac OS X 10.4.10).
>
> I installed the window-manager ratpoison as first port. "port  
> installed" gave me the list with one element as expected.
>
> Then I installed gcc43 ("sudo port install gcc43"). The build was  
> successful (including the libs), but at the end I got:
>
> ================
>
> --->  Building gcc43 with target bootstrap
> --->  Staging gcc43 into destroot
> --->  Installing gcc43 4.3-20070907_0+darwin_8
> list must have an even number of elements
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> ================
>
> I cleaned gcc43 ("sudo port clean gcc43"). And then:
>
> ================
>
> port installed
> Error: port installed failed: list must have an even number of  
> elements
> No ports are installed.
>
> ================
>
> What can it be?


On Sep 12, 2007, at 11:34, Eckhard Wiemann wrote:

> Now I recapitulated the whole sequence I described in my last mail,  
> except that I installed vim instead of gcc43. Now the "installed"- 
> selector matches the installed ports as it should.
>
> Thus it seems that gcc43 corrupted my registry of MacPorts.

I have confirmed this issue and filed a ticket:

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12698

We probably need a MacPorts base expert to have a look at it. Even if  
there is a bug in the gcc43 portfile, base should not allow a port  
bug to corrupt the registry. We either have a bug in base, or a bug  
in base and a bug in the portfile.