port selfupdate prompts for GitHub account login

Austin Ziegler halostatue at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 18:19:36 UTC 2023


Do you have a secondary source like `file:///Users/garrett/ports [nosync]`
in /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf? I have one and it‘s a git repo on
GitHub.

Updating git repo sources may require login periodically.

-a

On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 2:00 PM Garrett Oldani <garrett.oldani at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Recently the port selfupdate command has been prompting me to provide a
> GitHub username and password. I’m not sure why it started doing this, or
> why it’s necessary at all. This is new behavior to me. Is this supposed to
> happen? Can it be avoided?
>
> If I need to provide any other information please let me know.



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