macports not untar the tar files

nikos yiotis nikos.yiotis at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 02:40:09 PDT 2012


recently upgraded to Lion so never really used this machine for coding.
to my surprise all the installed ports are compressed!!

sudo port selfupdate
port upgrade outdated

do not fix anything (although the upgrade is still running).
Shall I uninstall macports and start fresh?

N



On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:16 AM, nikos yiotis <nikos.yiotis at gmail.com>wrote:

> the log for openscenegraph (installation failed)
> http://codepad.org/5fEPoyI2
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> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:
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>> On Sep 3, 2012, at 03:18, nikos yiotis wrote:
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>> > Hey, is it normal for macports not to untar the tar files of the
>> installed port
>> > (last couple of times I had to go to my macports location and untar)
>>
>> Nope, that's not normal. But there is a bug in MacPorts where it does not
>> detect when, for example, decompression of a source tarball fails (if for
>> example your bzip2 utility is faulty), and the error message it prints is
>> more cryptic, like "no such file or directory". If you show us a main.log
>> file from one of these failures maybe we can figure out what's happening.
>>
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