Odd upgrade error

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 12, 2008, at 00:01, Adam Dershowitz wrote:

> On Oct 11, 2008, at 9:54 PM, William Davis wrote:
>
>> On Oct 12, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>>
>>> I had gimp-jp2 0.1_0 installed and just did the upgrade to
>>> 2.2.0_0.  I
>>> got an odd error and I am not sure if it is port error related to  
>>> jp2
>>> or a more general error related to MacPorts.
>>> The odd thing is that the upgrade seemed to work, so I am not sure
>>> exactly what the error means, or if I should worry about it, or
>>> post a
>>> ticket about it.  Here is the upgrade info:
>>> --->  Fetching gimp-jp2
>>> --->  Attempting to fetch jp2.tar.gz from http:// 
>>> registry.gimp.org/files/
>>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gimp-jp2
>>> --->  Extracting gimp-jp2
>>> --->  Configuring gimp-jp2
>>> --->  Building gimp-jp2 with target all
>>> --->  Staging gimp-jp2 into destroot
>>> --->  Deactivating gimp-jp2 0.1_0
>>> --->  Installing gimp-jp2 2.2.0_0
>>> --->  Activating gimp-jp2 2.2.0_0
>>> --->  Cleaning gimp-jp2
>>> Error: Variant build conflicts with fetch
>>> Error: Unable to open port: Error evaluating variants
>>> --->  Fetching qt4-mac
>>>
>>> And it did seem to install properly, as did the other ports that
>>> happen to be upgraded with the same: upgrade outdated.
>>
>> I just got that error mesg when trying to upgrade gimp-user-manual.
>> Since you did a "upgrade outdated", I wonder if this is not the port
>> that the error actually occurred in.
>
> I think that you are correct.  When I had done port outdated, one
> thing that showed was gimp-user-manual.  I then did port upgrade
> outdated and a bunch of things upgraded.  I saw the above error, after
> info about gimp-jp2 and before info about qt4-mac, with no mention of
> any other port, so I assumed that it related to gimp-jp2.  But, after
> I got your email I checked and found that gimp-user-manual had not
> upgraded.  So that probably was the error.  So the message was even
> more cryptic then I had thought.

Please see this thread:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-October/ 
011856.html