MacPorts 1.6 still supports OS X 10.3 Panther?

[Kevin Ballard]

If this problem is related to that commit and 10.3, then the only  
thing I can think of is that Mac OS X 10.3 included a broken version  
of tclsh, but that doesn't seem too plausible.

I can't think of any reason for this error to only affect commands  
that open Portfiles.

-Kevin Ballard

On Jan 5, 2008, at 12:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 4, 2008, at 20:12, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
>
>>>> 10. At the command line, you should now find that, when run on any
>>>> portname (e.g. xmlcatmgr) the "port info <portname>" and "port  
>>>> install
>>>> <portname>" commands fail with
>>>>
>>>>     Error: Unable to open port: invalid command name "ui_channels"
>>>>
>>>>     However, you should find that "port search <portname>" works
>>>> fine.
>>>> (In general, it appears to me that the port commands that fail with
>>>> the above message are the ones for which the "port" command  
>>>> attempts
>>>> to open a Portfile.)
>>>
>>> Yes. That is exactly what I see now.
>>>
>>> Next steps?
>>
>> Thank you so much for testing this.  Next steps, unfortunately, are  
>> in the
>> hands of the developers to try to work out why we're getting this  
>> error,
>> and then how to fix it.  If you think that you might be able to  
>> help with
>> figuring out what is going wrong in the core MacPorts code, that  
>> would be
>> great.  Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll have to sit tight until we can  
>> give
>> you a fix to test.  Of course, if you have any suggestions or  
>> questions,
>> or notice anything further, we'd be most happy to hear from you.
>>
>> I'm sorry that I can't be more helpful; my understanding of the core
>> MacPorts code just isn't good enough yet to be able to propose any
>> immediate fixes.  I hope that we can get this done for you as soon  
>> as we
>> can.
>
> Maybe this changeset is related to the problem?
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/changeset/29498
>

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