reinstalling macports

[Darren Weber]

Nice command line, Jeremy!

I did find my own custom port had some \n chars in long_description that
screwed up the registry.  It's all working correctly now.

Phew!

Thanks!



On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at macports.org>wrote:

> This should tell you which one is problematic:
>
> for f in /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/*/*/receipt.bz2; do echo -n $f &&
> bzcat $f | wc -l; done | grep -v ' 2$'
>
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2009, at 14:09, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>  Darren Weber wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a corrupted registry (receipts).
>>>
>>
>> Do you know which receipt it is?
>>
>> I assume this the issue with using \n in the
>> description/long_description as you did in your gdb port. In this case,
>> you could fix it by editing the receipt by hand. A valid receipt should
>> have only two lines. The first is the version number, the second one
>> contains all the information about the port.
>>
>> If there was some \n in the description/long_description, these new
>> lines are written into this receipt file as actual new lines. So, to get
>> a working receipt again, remove the new lines by joining these lines to
>> a single one.
>>
>> You will find the receipt at
>> /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/<name>/<composite_version>/receipt.bz2
>>
>> These are compressed, but plain text. Uncompress, edit and compress
>> again (or if you know vim, it will do it automatically for you).
>>
>> If my guess above was wrong, please show the receipt file in question
>> and describe what you did.
>>
>> Rainer
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