<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span>No idea why but after new install of MacPorts on Sequoia 15.0 (running on a UTM VM M2 mac mini) it seems that it did not create the </span>directories<span> </span><span>/private/var/root/.macports/history so today's port selfupdate failed. </span><div><br><div><span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Menlo;">> selfupdate</span></div>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">Error: process_command_files failed: fopen(/private/var/root/.macports/history): No such file or directory</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><div><span>However the previous days install of a long list of ports did not produce this problem. </span><div>Manually adding the directories fixed things.</div></div></div></body></html>