Failed to parse file lang/rust/Portfile

[Bee]

On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 22:41, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Bee wrote:
>>> Whenever I selfupdate MacPorts I get this message:
>>>
>>> Failed to parse file lang/rust/Portfile: can't read "stage0 
>>> (hash)": no such element in array
>>>
>>> I deleted the whole folder 'rust' and reran:
>>> sudo port -v selfupdate
>>>
>>> The 'rust' folder was restored but still receive the failed message.
>>>
>>> --and--
>>>
>>> port info rust
>>> Error: Port rust not found
>>>
>>> Bill
>>> MacOS 10.4.11
>>
>> Are you on a PowerPC machine?
>
> If he is, that would make sense.
>
> In the port you unconditionally set:
>
> set stage0(distfile)        [join "rust stage0 ${stage0(date)} $ 
> {stage0(rev)}
>                                 ${stage0(platform)} ${stage0 
> (hash)}" -].tar.bz2
>
> But ${stage0(hash)} is only set in a platform darwin block. That  
> means indexing the port will fail on our server as well. Which  
> explains why rust is missing from the online list of ports:
>
> http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=rust
>
> Anyway, the port already claims to require OS X 10.6 or later, so  
> Bill, you won't be able to install this on 10.4. Still, we should  
> fix the port so it at least always parses.

Yes... it only happens only on PowerPC, not on an Intel Mac.

I have no interest in rust, a moment ago I had no idea what it was.

My primary tool is vim on PowerPC and Intel Macs, Linux and Windows.

Thank you for the reply.
Bill