questions regarding selfupdate issue

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 13, 2014, at 5:12 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> 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...

The gsed port has existed for 12 years.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/422

Do you see the gsed portfile now? Are you able to install and uninstall it without error now?