[MacPorts] #62951: port - unable to recover

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#62951: port - unable to recover
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  Reporter:  mouse07410  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  base        |    Version:
Resolution:  worksforme  |   Keywords:
      Port:              |
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Changes (by jmroot):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => worksforme


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:2 mouse07410]:
 > @Joshua, first - thank you for answering my pretty vague cry for help.

 You're welcome.

 > screwed up the existing installation, probably by allowing two port
 updates to start at the same time;

 There should be locking in place to prevent that from causing problems.
 Bugs are always possible of course, so let us know if you can ever
 reproduce such a problem (admittedly unlikely now I know.)

 > It would be great if there were tools to repair and/or restore Macports
 registry either from {{{/opt/local/var/macports/software}}} or from what's
 in {{{/opt/local/bin}}}.

 Could be an interesting research problem to see how good a job you can do
 reconstructing the registry from that information. Some of it just plain
 doesn't exist (like requested status), some of it suffers from ambiguity
 (multiple ports could have provided a given file.)

 > But if I decide to build for Intel and M1 - what should I specify as
 "universal arch"? {{{universal_archs arm64 x86_64}}}?

 Yes, that would be the correct setting on Big Sur. It's also the default,
 so you could just comment out universal_archs in macports.conf.

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