Upgrade errors.

Frank J. R. Hanstick trog24 at comcast.net
Fri May 29 21:26:56 PDT 2009


Hello,
	Except that once the ports were removed by the actions taken, they  
only way they could have come back is if the earlier installed ports  
were upgraded and reloaded them.  It still does not make any sense.

On May 29, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On May 29, 2009, at 12:49, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
>
>>>> Error: No port perl5.9 found.
>>>> Error: No port render found.
>>>> Error: No port render found.
>
>> 	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.
>
> The ports no longer exist so they cannot have been reinstalled.
>
> But possibly, back when they did exist, you installed a port which  
> depended on them, and that dependency is still noted in your  
> registry. You should identify which ports those are, and forcibly  
> rebuild them, to get them to record its dependencies correctly. e.g.:
>
> sudo port -nf upgrade whateverport
>
>
>

Frank J. R. Hanstick
trog24 at comcast.net



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