Logging bug

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Jan 25 22:53:01 PST 2015


On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> I don't truly understand how base works and fits together, and my feeling is few people do, or someone would have figured out the solution to weird bugs like https://trac.macports.org/ticket/37093 by now.
> 
> I assure you the logging code is not that hard to understand compared
> with some other parts of base. That bug not being fixed is down to it
> not happening very often in the wild (I've personally never seen it) and
> nobody having provided a reduced test case.

It happens all the time. Here are two examples:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46678

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46679

The difficulty is that it apparently only happens when MacPorts automatically upgrades dependencies first; cleaning the affected port and trying again "fixes" the problem.



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