Help needed uninstalling / reinstalling ports

[Mark Hattam]

sudo port uninstall inactive

would lose the all the inactive installations, leaving just the  
(active) ones. What version of Macports are you using?

Mark

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On 6 Sep 2009, at 02:14, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:

> I'm running into lots of issues trying to get gtk2 to install; it
> keeps generating an invalid cache.
>
> So, I figured I'd uninstall, and re-install, all of the packages that
> it uses -- to make sure that everything is up to date, and +universal.
>
> But I'm stuck on a few of them:
> Kleiman-ibook:trunk michael$ sudo port -p uninstall -f pkgconfig cairo
> fontconfig freetype glib2 jpeg tiff libiconv libpng jasper atk pango
> gettext zlib xorg-libXi xorg-libXrandr xorg-libXcursor
> xorg-libXinerama xorg-libXdamage xorg-libXcomposite xorg-libXfixes
> --->  The following versions of fontconfig are currently installed:
> --->  	fontconfig @2.7.1_0+macosx
> --->  	fontconfig @2.7.2_0+macosx
> --->  	fontconfig @2.7.2_0+macosx+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of freetype are currently installed:
> --->  	freetype @2.3.8_0+macosx+universal
> --->  	freetype @2.3.9_0+macosx+universal
> --->  	freetype @2.3.9_1+macosx+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of libiconv are currently installed:
> --->  	libiconv @1.12_2+universal
> --->  	libiconv @1.13_0+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of libpng are currently installed:
> --->  	libpng @1.2.35_0+universal
> --->  	libpng @1.2.38_0+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of zlib are currently installed:
> --->  	zlib @1.2.3_2+universal
> --->  	zlib @1.2.3_3+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of xorg-libXrandr are currently  
> installed:
> --->  	xorg-libXrandr @1.2.3_0+universal
> --->  	xorg-libXrandr @1.3.0_1+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> Kleiman-ibook:trunk michael$
>
> I was not aware that upgrading packages does not uninstall the now
> out-of-date package. And, it's blocking progress.
>
> But, all is not lost. RT?M, and I find the -u option -- uninstall
> inactive ports when upgrading/uninstalling.
>
> Kleiman-ibook:trunk michael$ sudo port -u -p uninstall -f pkgconfig
> cairo fontconfig freetype glib2 jpeg tiff libiconv libpng jasper atk
> pango gettext zlib xorg-libXi xorg-libXrandr xorg-libXcursor
> xorg-libXinerama xorg-libXdamage xorg-libXcomposite xorg-libXfixes
> --->  The following versions of fontconfig are currently installed:
> --->  	fontconfig @2.7.1_0+macosx
> --->  	fontconfig @2.7.2_0+macosx
> --->  	fontconfig @2.7.2_0+macosx+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of freetype are currently installed:
> --->  	freetype @2.3.8_0+macosx+universal
> --->  	freetype @2.3.9_0+macosx+universal
> --->  	freetype @2.3.9_1+macosx+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of libiconv are currently installed:
> --->  	libiconv @1.12_2+universal
> --->  	libiconv @1.13_0+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of libpng are currently installed:
> --->  	libpng @1.2.35_0+universal
> --->  	libpng @1.2.38_0+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of zlib are currently installed:
> --->  	zlib @1.2.3_2+universal
> --->  	zlib @1.2.3_3+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  The following versions of xorg-libXrandr are currently  
> installed:
> --->  	xorg-libXrandr @1.2.3_0+universal
> --->  	xorg-libXrandr @1.3.0_1+universal (active)
> Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: Please specify the full
> version as recorded in the port registry.
> --->  Uninstalling autoconf @2.63_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling automake @1.10.2_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling fontconfig @2.7.1_0+macosx
> --->  Uninstalling fontconfig @2.7.2_0+macosx
> --->  Uninstalling freetype @2.3.8_0+macosx+universal
> --->  Uninstalling freetype @2.3.9_0+macosx+universal
> --->  Uninstalling libiconv @1.12_2+universal
> --->  Uninstalling libogg @1.1.3_2+universal
> --->  Uninstalling libpng @1.2.35_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling libsdl @1.2.13_5+universal
> --->  Uninstalling libtheora @1.0_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling libvorbis @1.2.0_1+universal
> --->  Uninstalling m4 @1.4.12_1+universal
> --->  Uninstalling p5-locale-gettext @1.05_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling perl5.8 @5.8.9_2
> --->  Uninstalling python25 @2.5.4_0+darwin_9+macosx+universal
> --->  Uninstalling python_select @0.2.1_0+darwin_9
> --->  Uninstalling tcl @8.5.6_0+darwin
> --->  Uninstalling Xft2 @2.1.13_2
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-bigreqsproto @1.0.2_0
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-inputproto @1.5.0_0
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-libX11 @1.2_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-libXau @1.0.4_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-libXdmcp @1.0.2_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-libXext @1.0.5_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-libXrandr @1.2.3_0+universal
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-randrproto @1.2.1_0
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-renderproto @0.9.3_0
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-xcmiscproto @1.1.2_0
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-xextproto @7.0.5_0
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-xf86bigfontproto @1.1.2_0
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-xproto @7.0.14_1
> --->  Uninstalling xorg-xtrans @1.2.3_0
> --->  Uninstalling xrender @0.9.4_5+universal
> --->  Uninstalling XviD @1.1.3_1+universal
> --->  Uninstalling zlib @1.2.3_2+universal
> Kleiman-ibook:trunk michael$
>
> That's not what I wanted. That's still not uninstalling what I wanted,
> and it uninstalled a bunch more that I don't know if I wanted removed
> or not.
>
> So, how do I get rid of the unwanted duplicates? And, how do I check
> to see if I've clobbered something I needed with that last command?
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