macports.conf and archive mode strangeness

[admin@…]

Hello, on MacPorts version 1.6 and 1.7 one has to set

portarchivemode=yes

in order for the option to work.

This is inconsistent with all other options in macports.conf. It should be

portarchivemode yes

[blb@…]

Using

portarchivemode yes

works for me, both on MacPorts 1.7 and trunk. When you set it this way, do you see any error messages? Try a small port, and use -d to get full debug output.

[admin@…]

Well, debug output does not give more information than I already have:

• uncommenting "portarchivemode yes" works (I guess that is the same as setting it to "portarchivemode=yes", since that can not be parsed or so)
• Debug output yields:

 port -d archive agrep 2>&1 >port.out
DEBUG: Found port in file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/sysutils/agrep
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/sysutils/agrep
DEBUG: setting option os.universal_supported to yes
DEBUG: org.macports.load registered provides 'load', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.distfiles registered provides 'distfiles', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: not using configure, so not adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: Requested variant powerpc is not provided by port agrep.
DEBUG: Requested variant darwin is not provided by port agrep.
DEBUG: Requested variant macosx is not provided by port agrep.
DEBUG: Executing org.macports.main (agrep)
DEBUG: Executing org.macports.fetch (agrep)
DEBUG: Executing org.macports.checksum (agrep)
DEBUG: Correct (md5) checksum for agrep-2.04.tar.Z
DEBUG: Executing org.macports.extract (agrep)
DEBUG: setting option extract.args to /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/agrep/agrep-2.04.tar.Z
DEBUG: Environment: MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET='10.5'
DEBUG: Assembled command: 'cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_agrep/work" && gzip -dc /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/agrep/agrep-2.04.tar.Z | /usr/bin/gnutar --no-same-owner -xf -'
DEBUG: Executing org.macports.patch (agrep)
DEBUG: Using compiler 'Mac OS X gcc 4.0'
DEBUG: Executing org.macports.configure (agrep)
DEBUG: Executing org.macports.build (agrep)
DEBUG: Environment: MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET='10.5'
DEBUG: Assembled command: 'cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_sysutils_agrep/work/agrep-2.04" && bsdmake '
DEBUG: Executing org.macports.destroot (agrep)
DEBUG: Executing destroot_finish
DEBUG: Scanning man1
DEBUG: checking for mtree violations
Error: Target org.macports.archive returned: Archive mode is not enabled!
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

So, nothing new here.

[blb@…]

Can you attach your /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf file? Also, do you have anything in ~/.macports?

[admin@…]

in ~/.macports a file called "history" exists.

[blb@…]

Ah, I see what's confusing it, there is a tab character after yes on your portarchivemode line; if you remove that, it should be okay. I'll track down why this confuses port as it should be ignoring such whitespace.

[admin@…]

yes, that solved the problem. thanks.

[blb@…]

Fixed on trunk in r47034, merged to 1.7 branch in r47035.