MacPorts 2.7.0-beta1 now available for testing

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 24, 2021, at 23:23, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> On Apr 24, 2021, at 7:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Does only the first non-sudo `port` command fail? Does running the command with `sudo` once allow it to work without `sudo` a second time?
>> 
>> (There could be a one-time need to modify the registry sqlite database for the new method.)
> 
> Yes, indeed that seems to be the case. I just tried it again on that same system, and indeed I no longer need to use sudo for basic commands. Good catch.

Ok, then this is probably just the way it is for now. I seem to recall a similar situation happening with some previous MacPorts base update. Whenever we change the structure of the registry in some way, we increase the registry version and there is code (our update_db function) that knows what SQL statements need to run to convert an old registry version into the new one. This requires write access to the database.

Maybe there is a way that we could postpone the sqlite update process until you run a sudo port command. But depending on what the modifications are that the update performs, a new MacPorts might not be able to understand the structure of an old MacPorts registry until the sqlite update is performed.