apbs-mpi: default variants conflict with universal

[a.user@…]

I'm trying to follow the migration instructions for 10.9 but when I try to use "clean" it chokes here

--->  Cleaning apbs
Error: apbs: Variant mpich conflicts with universal
Error: Unable to open port: Error evaluating variants

I've tried

sudo port -f uninstall apbs
sudo port clean apbs
--->  Cleaning apbs

sudo port -f uninstall mpich
sudo port clean mpich
--->  Cleaning mpich

then

sudo port clean all

sudo port clean uninstalled

also

sudo port uninstall --follow-dependencies apbs
sudo port clean uninstalled

still choking, as is

sudo port uninstall --follow-dependencies mpich
sudo port clean uninstalled

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This is because the apbs-mpi port (the one alphabetically after the last successful clean you showed, the apbs port) declares default variants which conflict with the universal variant, and you have presumably specified a default universal variant in your variants.conf. I'm assigning the ticket to the maintainer of the apbs-mpi port, and Ccing the developer who made the mpi portgroup which it uses. As a workaround, you could remove +universal from your variants.conf, then use "sudo port clean all", then put +universal back in variants.conf if you want it.

[a.user@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

This is because the apbs-mpi port (the one alphabetically after the last successful clean you showed, the apbs port) declares default variants which conflict with the universal variant, and you have presumably specified a default universal variant in your variants.conf. I'm assigning the ticket to the maintainer of the apbs-mpi port, and Ccing the developer who made the mpi portgroup which it uses. As a workaround, you could remove +universal from your variants.conf, then use "sudo port clean all", then put +universal back in variants.conf if you want it.

ok thanks for posting a workaround - I'm fairly new to MacPorts and wasn't sure if I was missing something obvious