<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sorry for such an stupid question…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was running an older MacPorts version on my High Sierra and wanted to upgrade the version just installing the newest one (<a class="link" href="https://github.com/macports/macports-base/releases/download/v2.9.1/MacPorts-2.9.1-10.13-HighSierra.pkg" target="_top">MacPorts-2.9.1-10.13-HighSierra.pkg</a>) existing for my iMac. I did it and and it was made with getting no errors or warnings. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, after this installation I only see that there appeared a new directory called /opt/local/var/, but the existing executables are still the old ones (the ones existing in the old /opt/local/bin directory. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And when I try to run “sudo port selfupdate” I get the following error:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Please run `port -v selfupdate' for details.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed</span></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Rerunning it with the -v option I get exactly the same error and my question is:</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">What can I do to have the newest MacPorts binaries being upgraded?</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Any help would be kindly appreciated….</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">All the best,</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Martin</span></div><div class="">
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