selfupdate error

[Ryan Schmidt]

There were initial problems building MacPorts 1.6.0 on Panther. These  
were resolved in order to produce the Panther disk image packages.  
I'm surprised these changes were not merged back for the selfupdate  
system.

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-January/ 
004084.html


Yes, you should be able to download the MacPorts 1.6.0 Panther disk  
image and install it over the top of what you have on your system  
now. Your existing ports will not be affected.


On Jul 11, 2008, at 14:16, Marco Battistella wrote:

> Hi,
> i just ran a selfupdate in a system that had not been updated for
> awhile and got a bunch of errors (listed at the end of the message).
> with a quick search i found:
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-tickets/2007-December/
> 001608.html
> which seems to be pretty much the same issue i'm having.
> Now my question is: if I download the latest package and install it
> would it remove/delete the ports that i have already installed?
> I don't think it makes a difference for this specific question,
> (while it obviously does for the error) but i'm running Panther.
> thank you,
> Marco
>
>
> ----
> here is the transcript i get when i try selfupdate
>
> sudo port selfupdate
> DarwinPorts base version 1.442 installed
> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600
> Configuring, Building and Installing new MacPorts base
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Error installing new
> MacPorts base: shell command "cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/
> rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/base && ./configure --prefix=/
> opt/local --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with-
> tclpackage=/Library/Tcl && make && make install" returned error 2
> Command output: registry.c:305: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use
> in this function)
> registry.c:306: error: request for member `status' in something not a
> structure or union
> registry.c: At top level:
> registry.c:321: error: parse error before '*' token
> registry.c: In function `reg_start_write':
> registry.c:322: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this  
> function)
> registry.c:323: error: request for member `status' in something not a
> structure or union
> registry.c: At top level:
> registry.c:333: error: parse error before '*' token
> registry.c: In function `reg_end':
> registry.c:334: error: request for member `status' in something not a
> structure or union
> registry.c:335: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this  
> function)
> registry.c:341: error: request for member `db' in something not a
> structure or union
> registry.c:341: error: `query' undeclared (first use in this function)
> registry.c:342: error: `SQLITE_OK' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> registry.c:345: error: `SQLITE_BUSY' undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> registry.c:346: error: request for member `db' in something not a
> structure or union
> registry.c: At top level:
> registry.c:359: error: parse error before '*' token
> registry.c: In function `reg_commit':
> registry.c:360: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this  
> function)
> registry.c:361: error: request for member `status' in something not a
> structure or union
> registry.c: At top level:
> registry.c:376: error: parse error before '*' token
> registry.c: In function `reg_rollback':
> registry.c:377: error: `errPtr' undeclared (first use in this  
> function)
> registry.c:378: error: request for member `status' in something not a
> structure or union
> make[2]: *** [registry.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 1