aspell references itself

[john@…]

Hi,

while trying to uninstall all ports I ran into an infinite loop on aspell. Just trying to uninstall aspell shows the issue nicely:

$ sudo port uninstall aspell
--->  Unable to uninstall/deactivate aspell @0.60.6_4+nonls, the following ports depend on it:
--->  	aspell @0.60.6_4+nonls
--->  	aspell @0.60.6_4+nonls
Error: Target org.macports.uninstall returned: Please uninstall the ports that depend on aspell first.
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Cheers, John

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

What OS version are you running on? Are you using MacPorts 1.9.2 as you wrote in the Port field (which should be the name of the affected port BTW) or 2.0.1 as you put in the Version field? This looks exactly like a problem with newer SQLite versions (such as found on Lion) that was fixed in MacPorts 2.0.0.

[john@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

What OS version are you running on? Are you using MacPorts 1.9.2 as you wrote in the Port field (which should be the name of the affected port BTW) or 2.0.1 as you put in the Version field? This looks exactly like a problem with newer SQLite versions (such as found on Lion) that was fixed in MacPorts 2.0.0.

Thanks for the fast reply!

I am running MacOS 10.7, and was trying to follow the update procedure I found on your site to get from MacPorts 1.9.2 to the most recent version. The first command (sudo port -f uninstall --follow-dependents installed) in the update procedure complained about the infinite loop while following the dependents for aspell.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The instructions say to install MacPorts again first. In any case, this is therefore a duplicate of #27506.