{Disarmed} unpleasant surprises: no ports are installed

[Jay Chandler]

paul beard wrote:
> Something has come undone in my efforts to get the MAMP stack 
> re-installed. 
>
> [/opt/local/var/macports/receipts]# port installed | more 
> Error: port installed failed: Registry error: php5 
> @5.2.5_1+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5 not registered as installed.
> No ports are installed.
>
> This looks worse than it is. It looked like a couple of malformed 
> receipts in php5 
> (5.2.5_1+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5, 5.2.5_1+apache2+macosx) had 
> blocked things up. Once I removed them, the list of installed ports is 
> available. 
>
> Seems to me that either bad receipts (which I think is actually a case 
> of a malformed installation/wrong variants) should not be written (the 
> port request would exit before doing anything wrong) or the parsing 
> process would ignore them rather than bombing out. 
>
> The bits are all installed: it's now just a matter of getting them 
> recognized by the infrastructure. 

The FreeBSD ports tree has a tool to address such things-- pkgdb -F 
tends to sort 'em out quickly.  Is there a MacPorts equivalent to this?

-- 
Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ
Living Legend / Systems Exorcist
Today's Excuse: because of network lag due to too many people playing deathmatch