upgrade problems: port uninstall failed: directory not empty

[Freek Dijkstra]

Hi,

I just moved to Mac OS 10.7 (Lion), and naturally did a `port
selfupdate` followed by a `port upgrade outdated`.

I'm having problems with `port upgrade outdated`. So far I got over 20
reports such as the following:

Error: port uninstall failed: error deleting
"/opt/local/var/macports/software/subversion/1.6.5_0": directory not empty

or

Error: port uninstall failed: error deleting
"/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4": directory not empty

To remedy this problem, I first did:
port clean --all installed
followed by
port uninstall inactive

However, `port uninstall inactive` gives the same problems.

I'm running all commands as root; manually `rm -rf` the affected
directories works fine, but is very tedious.

I did search the mailing list, and found some remarks about changes in
the privilege system. The suggestion was that the privilege was dropped,
so that ports was permitted to remove some folders.

Indeed, everything in /opt/local/var/macports/software is owned by
root:admin, but I would not know what owner to change it to, and if that
helps.


Details:

~# port installed gettext
The following ports are currently installed:
  gettext @0.17_4
  gettext @0.18.1.1_0
  gettext @0.18.1.1_2 (active)
  gettext @0.18.1.1_2+universal
~# port -d uninstall gettext @0.17_4
DEBUG: no portfile in registry for gettext @0.17_4
--->  Uninstalling gettext @0.17_4
DEBUG: error deleting "/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4":
directory not empty
    while executing
"file delete $imagefile"
    (procedure "uninstall" line 161)
    invoked from within
"uninstall $portname $version $revision $variants $optionslist"
    (procedure "registry_uninstall::uninstall_composite" line 5)
    invoked from within
"registry_uninstall::uninstall_composite $portname $composite_version
[array get options]"
Error: port uninstall failed: error deleting
"/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4": directory not empty

~# find /opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4  | head -10
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt/local
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt/local/bin
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt/local/bin/autopoint
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt/local/bin/envsubst
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt/local/bin/gettext
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt/local/bin/gettext.sh
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt/local/bin/gettextize
/opt/local/var/macports/software/gettext/0.17_4/opt/local/bin/msgattrib

~# whoami
root
~# ls -lad /opt/local/var/macports/software
drwxr-xr-x  330 root  admin  11220 14 Nov 11:33
/opt/local/var/macports/software/

~# port version
Version: 2.0.3
~# uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug  9 20:54:00 PDT 2011;
root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Any help is kindly appreciated.

Freek Dijkstra