Double installs

Scott Haneda talklists at newgeo.com
Wed Feb 25 16:18:06 PST 2009


For the sake of helping others.  From IRC, I learned `port list  
installed` is sort of broken, do not use it, use `port installed`  
instead.

If there is an archive of IRC, there is more detail about why in that.

On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:41 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:

> This has plagued me since I have been using MacPorts, I aim to solve  
> it now.
>
> port list installed
> perl5                          @5.8.9          lang/perl5
> perl5.8                        @5.8.9          lang/perl5.8
>
> Seems to me I am pretty clean.
>
> port info p5-error
> Warning: Found 2 port p5-error definitions, displaying first one.
>
> I have a local port, I do not know why, when I made it, I could not  
> find it in port, seems to have happened to me a lot.
>
> At any rate, if i install it
> port list installed
> p5-error                       @0.17015        perl/p5-error
> p5-error                       @0.17015        perl/p5-error
> perl5                          @5.8.9          lang/perl5
> perl5.8                        @5.8.9          lang/perl5.8
>
> port dir p5-error
> /Users/me/macports/perl/p5-error
>
> It will always list as installed 2x, how do I solve this?

--
Scott



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