Error after trying to upgrade installed

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 23, 2009, at 8:35 AM, robert delius royar wrote:
>> Direct mode is certainly less well tested than image mode. I've  
>> never used it. Is there a particular reason why you are using it?
>
> I began using Darwinports very soon after DP was created.  When  
> Image mode was added, a few of us (perhaps under Panther but could  
> have been Tiger) noticed significant (and documentable) slow downs  
> on access to files in /opt/local/bin.  After a conversation on the  
> old DP mailing list, we found that hard links were problematic for  
> the OS (at least in that version) when they exceded some level.

For the list archives, this was fixed (in 10.4, IIRC).

As for your upgrade loop, I think you're experiencing bug #17762 (http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17762 
)

I haven't had time to investigate (and wasn't running trunk on my  
direct mode machine so I missed the change that caused it).

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