Port cxx fails to install because of incomplete uninstall

[Gerben Wierda]

I have a standard set I install after uninstalling everything (that way, old dependencies like dependencies on older python versions for instance aren’t carried over for ever).

When I just did my full clean/install cycle, I got:

--->  Fetching archive for libcxx
--->  Attempting to fetch libcxx-5.0.1_5.any_any.noarch.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/libcxx
--->  Attempting to fetch libcxx-5.0.1_5.any_any.noarch.tbz2.rmd160 from https://packages.macports.org/libcxx
--->  Installing libcxx @5.0.1_5
--->  Activating libcxx @5.0.1_5
Error: Failed to activate libcxx: Image error: /opt/local/share/doc/libcxx/README.txt already exists and does not belong to a registered port.  Unable to activate port libcxx. Use 'port -f activate libcxx' to force the activation.
    while executing
"throw registry::image-error $msg"
    ("foreach" body line 79)
    invoked from within
"foreach file $imagefiles {
                incr progress_step
                _progress update $progress_step $progress_total_steps
                se..."
    invoked from within
"registry::write {
            foreach file $imagefiles {
                incr progress_step
                _progress update $progress_step $progress_..."
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_Users_gerben_MacPortsDev_macports-ports_lang_libcxx/libcxx/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there is a bug.
Error: Processing of port putty failed

It turns out, that after a complete uninstall (port uninstall installed) not everything is removed. Here is what I found from past incomplete uninstalls:

# ls /opt/local/share/doc/*
/opt/local/share/doc/cmake:
Copyright.txt	cmlibrhash	cmsys

/opt/local/share/doc/db48:
api_reference

/opt/local/share/doc/libcxx:
README.txt

/opt/local/share/doc/minio:
LICENSE		NOTICE		README.md

/opt/local/share/doc/mono:
COPYING.LIB	NEWS		README.md

/opt/local/share/doc/py311-libxml2:
README

/opt/local/share/doc/py311-markupsafe:
CHANGES.rst	LICENSE.rst	README.rst

To protect myself against this, I have turned my uninstall to:

sudo port -f uninstall installed
# These leftovers may fail activation of a port (does so for cxx)
sudo rm -rf /opt/local/share/doc/*
sudo port -N reclaim
#sudo rm -rf /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python* # leftover kills reinstall

As you can see from the last line I ran into something comparable earlier.

G

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