macports not untar the tar files

[Chris Jones]

On 03/09/12 10:40, nikos yiotis wrote:
> recently upgraded to Lion so never really used this machine for coding.
> to my surprise all the installed ports are compressed!!
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> sudo port selfupdate
> port upgrade outdated
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> do not fix anything (although the upgrade is still running).
> Shall I uninstall macports and start fresh?

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration

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