Re: help on restore
On Jan 27, 2019, at 14:02, Comer Duncan wrote: > Well it crapped out just the same way after I removed all +universal > instances in my ports list. Am I now looking at putting back my original > ports by hand? Hopefully that's not required. However I'm not sure what to try next. Maybe someone else can help. Some problems with the restore process have been posted to the mailing list before. Maybe you can find those messages in the archive; maybe they contain helpful suggestions. It could be there's a problem with the dependency chain of one of the ports (such as a circular dependency, which isn't allowed) which was introduced sometime after you last updated your ports. I see you last updated in September, so that's quite a long time -- quite a lot of changes to the ports tree in that time -- so it's tough to say at this moment if that's likely to be the reason. Migration time can be an opportunity to streamline your set of installed ports. Instead of reinstalling all the ports you had installed, you could just reinstall the ports you actually need. (If you followed the optional steps of the migration instructions, that list of ports would be in requested.txt.) That may take less time, and may coincidentally resolve whatever issue is preventing the full set from being installed.
Re: help on restore
Hi, Personally, I think this is anyway a better approach. I never follow the migration instructions word for word. I create the lists of all ports and requested ports, but instead of just blindly reinstalling them all, I manually reinstall those I want via the requested list. It is usually not that long a list. The reason I do this is default variants and deps can and do change over time, and can be different for different OS versions. So just blindly reinstalling them as as per the old OS often just does not work. So, yes, I recommend you just manually reinstall them one by want, using the default variants as of now, unless there are some explicit changes you need. Chris > On 27 Jan 2019, at 8:02 pm, Comer Duncan wrote: > > Ryan, > > Well it crapped out just the same way after I removed all +universal > instances in my ports list. Am I now looking at putting back my original > ports by hand? > > Thanks. > > Comer
Re: help on restore
On Jan 27, 2019, at 13:30, Comer Duncan wrote: > Well it failed with the same message as before. I'm attaching my myports.txt. > I've changed the sources.conf file in the way you suggested. I'm attaching > it as well. Hmm. Well, you should definitely remove "+universal" everywhere it appears in that file. Universal building is not supported on Mojave or later. > By the way, my gmail does not recognize lists.macports.org as a legit > address! What gives? Not sure. https://lists.macports.org is a valid web site and macports-users@lists.macports.org is a valid email address.
Re: help on restore
On Jan 27, 2019, at 13:05, Comer Duncan wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > I'm attaching the existing sources.conf file that's on my system. Seems a > bit pecular and I don't know how long the line > rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar > has been there! Can you suggest a nifty change? There needs to be exactly one non-commented line that ends with " [default]"; your config file has none. Also, please change the URL to rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar -- while the old URL still works, it is deprecated and we are trying to phase it out. P.S: Remember to Reply All so that the conversation stays on the mailing list.
Re: help on restore
On Jan 27, 2019, at 12:37, Comer Duncan wrote: > I've followed the steps on the macports page > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration under Reinstall Ports. When I > execute sudo ./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt after a few seconds I get the > output: > > ComerMacProRetina:~ comerduncan$ sudo ./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt > Password: > Warning: No default port source specified in > /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf, using last source as default > Error: we appear to be stuck, exiting... > infinite loop > while executing > "sort_ports $portList" > invoked from within > "set operationList [sort_ports $portList]" > (file "./restore_ports.tcl" line 285) > > Can someone please advise on what to do next to find out what is wrong? I'm > migrating to Mohave from High Sierra. My first question would be: what's in sources.conf? P.S: Please use the lists.macports.org hostname when addressing your mailing list messages. The old hostname you used was retired in 2016. Mail to the old hostname forwards to the new one, but some users cannot see those forwarded messages because of restrictions imposed by their email providers.
