Error updating MacPorts

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Jul 9, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Randall Wood wrote:

> Error updating macports from 1.5.0-rc1 to 1.5.0:
>
> Getafix:~ rhwood$ sudo port selfupdate
> MacPorts base version 1.5 installed
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: couldn't open "/opt/ 
> local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base/config/ 
> mp_version": no such file or directory
> Getafix:~ rhwood$ sudo port -dv selfupdate
> DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed.
> DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)
> Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
> DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync:// 
> rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ 
> rsync.macports.org/release/ports
> receiving file list ... done
>
> sent 74 bytes  received 269017 bytes  19932.67 bytes/sec
> total size is 14713580  speedup is 54.68
> Synchronizing from file:///Users/rhwood/Developer/MacPorts/ 
> WorkingPorts
> DEBUG: MacPorts base dir: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ 
> rsync.macports.org/release/base
> DEBUG: Setting user: root
> MacPorts base version 1.5 installed
> DEBUG: Updating using rsync
> receiving file list ... done
> config/
>
> sent 73 bytes  received 4957 bytes  1437.14 bytes/sec
> total size is 2093103  speedup is 416.12
> DEBUG: couldn't open "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/ 
> rsync.macports.org/release/base/config/mp_version": no such file or  
> directory
>     while executing
> "open [file join $mp_base_path config mp_version] r"
>     (procedure "macports::selfupdate" line 45)
>     invoked from within
> "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]"
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: couldn't open "/opt/ 
> local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base/config/ 
> mp_version": no such file or director


	Hi Randall!

	You're only seeing this error 'cause you attempted a selfupdate from  
a 1.5rc1 installation to the sources provided by the "release/base/"  
rsync repository on our rsync server, which just as of yesterday  
correspondded to the 1.4.42 release. So you basically attempted a  
downgrade which naturally fails (for various reasons, actually, not  
just the one you experienced here).

	Nevertheless, I updated the base/config/RELEASE_URL file this early  
morning to point to the 1.5.0 svn tag, effectively releasing 1.5.0  
through selfupdate for all users (default "release/base/" rsync  
repository). You should be able to selfupdate successfully now.

	Regards,...


-jmpp

PS: selfupdating to the "trunk/base/" rsync repo will always get you  
trunk/base's ToT sources, in case you can't care to svn co them && ./ 
configure && make && make install.