Upgrade errors.

[Frank J. R. Hanstick]

Hello,
	It seems that I did this once before to clear up these problems, so  
why are they back?  Some previous upgrade must have reinstalled these  
items since the last clearing of the problem.

On May 28, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:35:57PM -0700, Frank J. R. Hanstick said:
>> Hello,
>> 	I got the following errors following:
> [...]
>>
>> Error: No port perl5.9 found.
>> Error: No port render found.
>> Error: No port render found.
>>
>> are about.  I may have seen these before; but, cannot remember  
>> when or
>> why.
>
> perl5.9 was renamed perl5.9-devel over a year ago [1], then deleted  
> about a
> month after that [2] in favor of the release-status perl5.10.   
> Depending on
> what you're doing with it, going with perl5.10 is probably the best  
> choice.
>
> The render port was removed [3] in favor of xorg-renderproto after  
> being a
> stub port for a while.  Just force-uninstall render and you should  
> be fine
> as it should have been only a build-time dependency and xorg- 
> renderproto
> takes care of that now.
>
> Unfortunately MacPorts doesn't have any sort of support for
> renaming/deleting ports so this kind of issue occasionally surfaces.
>
> Bryan
>
> [1] - <http://trac.macports.org/changeset/32171>
> [2] - <http://trac.macports.org/changeset/32638>
> [3] - <http://trac.macports.org/changeset/44924>
>
>
>> Frank J. R. Hanstick
>> trog24 at comcast.net
>>
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Frank J. R. Hanstick
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