questions regarding selfupdate issue

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Thursday November 13 2014 21:33:00 Clemens Lang wrote:

Hi,

> That's exactly what I would have expected, because this archive has just been
> created from your ${prefix}.

Yeah, I figured that :)


> 
> Yes. If you had had this file, images_to_archives.tcl wouldn't have attempted
> to create it. You must have had gsed installed, though, because
> images_to_archives.tcl uses the metadata MacPorts keeps about its installed
> ports in the registry database in $prefix/var/macports/registry/registry.db.

I see I didn't write down my full thought :-/ What I meant to say was that I suspected that the gsed I had installed was part of another port, recently split up. It'd be a feat to handle that kind of thing automatically (I guess :)).

Question is, if I did install gsed at some point (which would be very likely), how come I can't find a trace of its Portfile? 

Unless...
I keep getting that error that I've already signalled but that I cannot reproduce nor predict nor even "debug" because it "self heals": some kind of transient failure uninstalling a port with alerts about missing files from MacPort's infrastructure. Usually the port does get uninstalled though, without collateral damage as far as I can tell. I wonder if this is related and if so, what on earth is going on.
AFAIT I can rule out issues with my harddrive...


R.