'port upgrade outdated' fails with Error: Dependency 'p5.12-locale-gettext' not found.

[brentk@…]

I did a port selfupdate, and then tried the suggested upgrade:

[root@castle ~]# port upgrade outdated
--->  p5-locale-gettext is replaced by p5.12-locale-gettext
Error: No port p5.12-locale-gettext found.

port installed listed:

p5-locale-gettext @1.05_5 (active)

So I thought I'd try force uninstalling and re-installing it, but that didn't work out:

[root@castle ~]# port -dc install p5-locale-gettext
DEBUG: Changing to port directory: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/perl/p5-locale-gettext
DEBUG: OS darwin/10.8.0 (Mac OS X 10.6) arch i386
DEBUG: org.macports.load registered provides 'load', a pre-existing procedure. Target override will not be provided
DEBUG: org.macports.unload registered provides 'unload', 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: Using group file /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/perl5-1.0.tcl
DEBUG: Re-registering default for configure.universal_args
DEBUG: universal_variant is false, so not adding the default universal variant
DEBUG: changing euid/egid - current euid: 0 - current egid: 0
DEBUG: egid changed to: 507
DEBUG: euid changed to: 501
DEBUG: Starting logging for p5-locale-gettext
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-locale-gettext
DEBUG: Searching for dependency: p5.12-locale-gettext
DEBUG: Didn't find receipt, going to depspec regex for: p5.12-locale-gettext
Error: Dependency 'p5.12-locale-gettext' not found.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I searched through the files in the /opt/local filesystem, and aside from the log files 'p5.12-locale-gettext' only appears in the PortIndex file:

grep 'p5.12-locale-gettext' /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/PortIndex
subports {p5.8-locale-gettext p5.10-locale-gettext p5.12-locale-gettext p5.14-locale-gettext} portdir perl/p5-locale-gettext description {Perl interface to GNU gettext} homepage http://search.cpan.org/dist/gettext/ epoch 0 platforms darwin name p5-locale-gettext depends_lib port:p5.12-locale-gettext replaced_by p5.12-locale-gettext maintainers {l2g openmaintainer} long_description {{Perl interface to GNU gettext}} license {{Artistic GPL}} categories perl version 1.50.0 revision 6

I don't know what to do. Thanks for your advice.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The important missing clue, which turned up in discussion on IRC, was that this was right after selfupdating from a pre-2.0 version. So, duplicate of #30739.

[brentk@…]

The solution to this problem (to save the time of people who find this via search) is to re-run port selfupdate.

[kyron@…]

I am hitting the same problem and, after calling port selfupdate a few times, and even intalling 2.0.1 through the DMG installer, I still get the same error:

some "proof":

kyron@dyn9031074035 ~/Downloads/IBM/nmon/bin $ sudo port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz
No updates for http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 69 bytes  70.00 bytes/sec
total size is 3219456  speedup is 30661.49
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 76 bytes  74.67 bytes/sec
total size is 512  speedup is 4.57
MacPorts base version 2.0.1 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.0.1 downloaded.
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated
kyron@dyn9031074035 ~/Downloads/IBM/nmon/bin $ sudo port upgrade outdated
Warning: No port p5.12-locale-gettext found in the index.
--->  Computing dependencies for help2man
Error: Dependency 'p5.12-locale-gettext' not found.
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

Most of these tickets seem to be from people who are using the tarball for their ports tree. Have we verified that the job that generates it is running correctly?