No default port source specified in /mp/etc/macports/sources.conf

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 1, 2008, at 01:40, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:14:16AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said:
>
>> On Dec 1, 2008, at 00:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 1, 2008, at 00:29, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried updating my MacPorts trunk base just now (r42837) and got
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ===> making install in src/programs/daemondo
>>>> /usr/bin/install -c -o rschmidt -g admin -m 555 build/daemondo /mp/
>>>> bin
>>>> /usr/bin/install -c -o rschmidt -g admin -m 444 setupenv.bash  /mp/
>>>> share/macports/
>>>> /usr/bin/tclsh src/upgrade_sources_conf_default.tcl /mp
>>>> /usr/bin/tclsh src/dep_map_clean.tcl /mp/Library/Tcl
>>>> No default port source specified in /mp/etc/macports/sources.conf
>>>>     while executing
>>>> "mportinit"
>>>>     (file "src/dep_map_clean.tcl" line 12)
>>>> make: *** [install] Error 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The only non-comment line in my sources.conf is:
>>>>
>>>> file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports
>>>>
>>>> So it does not have anything in brackets after the URL.
>>>
>>> And the port command doesn't work either now:
>>>
>>> $ port
>>> No default port source specified in /mp/etc/macports/sources.conf
>>>     while executing
>>> "mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
>>> Error: /mp/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, No default port
>>> source specified in /mp/etc/macports/sources.conf
>>> $
>>>
>>> Is there supposed to be code that changes my sources.conf to  
>>> designate
>>> one as a default?
>
> Yes, base/src/upgrade_sources_conf_default.tcl does this.  However  
> there are
> a few cases where it is/was failing.  The above source you used,
> file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports, is that an svn-checkout?   
> If so, is
> the URL for it at svn.macosforge.org instead of macports.org (use  
> 'svn info
> /Users/rschmidt/macports/dports' to see)?  If so, I'm working on  
> fixing that
> at the moment.

Yes it was a Subversion working copy from svn.macosforge.org, and  
your fix worked, thanks!


>> On another machine, on which I have multiple MacPorts installs  
>> sharing a
>> sources.conf, "[default]" appears to have been added by something.  
>> Because
>> I updated one install, and then the other said:
>>
>> $ port sync
>> Warning: /mp/etc/macports/sources.conf source 'file:///Volumes/data/
>> macports/ports [default]' specifies invalid flag 'default'
>> Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing an svn  
>> update
>> port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>> $
>>
>> And sources.conf does (now) have "[default]" at the end of the one
>> non-comment line.
>
> Did this sources.conf have a tag already, most likely [nosync] in  
> it?  That
> was fixed in r42734 for trunk and r42736 for 1.7 branch, to use the  
> correct
> '[nosync,default]' instead of '[nosync] [default]'.

No, it had no existing tags. But it was a working copy from  
svn.macports.org. That explains it!