Fix: My dovecot install fails after macOS Sonoma 14.5 update and MacPorts update

[Joshua Root]

On 27/5/2024 02:04, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> Thank you.
> 
> I had all kinds of other issues as well, so I was starting to wonder my 
> MacPorts registry was corrupted
> 
> E.g. clamav-server did not activate because an older 
> /opt/local/etc/clamd.conf.macports.orig was still there. Or a just 
> installed certbot that on clean quits with an error because certbot is 
> not installed. But iyt may have been macports/sources.conf location 
> confusion or an interrupted update..
> 
> Anyway, is there a way to rebuild the registry (without losing all my 
> configs in /opt/local/etc and elsewhere)? Just in case it is corrupted?

That isn't the symptom that registry corruption would typically give 
you, but sure, rebuilding the registry entry for a port is easily 
accomplished by reinstalling it:

sudo port -n upgrade --force someport

- Josh