Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#41680 closed defect (duplicate)
Non-existent variants do not cause a failure messge
Reported by: | ralph@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | base | Version: | 2.2.1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Port: |
Description
I tried
sudo port install perl5 +perl5.18
not realising that variant +perl5.18 does not exist. Instead of giving an error message and asking to chose a valid variant, macports silently used the default variant:
---> Computing dependencies for perl5 ---> Fetching archive for perl5 ---> Attempting to fetch perl5-5.12.4_0+perl5_12.darwin_13.noarch.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/perl5 ---> Attempting to fetch perl5-5.12.4_0+perl5_12.darwin_13.noarch.tbz2.rmd160 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/perl5 ---> Installing perl5 @5.12.4_0+perl5_12 ---> Deactivating perl5 @5.12.4_0+perl5_16 ---> Cleaning perl5 ---> Activating perl5 @5.12.4_0+perl5_12 ---> Cleaning perl5
which in this case was certainly unhelpful to say the least, essentially downgrading my perl.
If a variant is missing, macports should stop and give an error.
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Resolution: | → duplicate |
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Status: | new → closed |
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Duplicate of #14648.