Still no Universal variant for NSS?

[Greg Earle]

I wanted to update WINE-devel via MacPorts but was told my ports were out of date when I ran "sudo port update wine-devel".

I've migrated my system from a 32-bit (only) old MacBook Pro to a present-model Mac Pro running in full 64-bit mode.

When I ran "sudo port selfupdate" it converted me from 1.9.2 to 2.0.3.  (Oops)

I soon had problems with programs crashing so I said the heck with it and reinstalled 2.0.3 from DMG.

I then decided to try the

sudo port -qv installed > /tmp/installed_ports.txt
sudo port -fp uninstall --follow-dependents installed
sudo port clean all
curl -O http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/restore_ports/restore_ports.tcl
chmod +x restore_ports.tcl
sudo ./restore_ports.tcl /tmp/installed_ports.txt

method described in the migration FAQ.

It was humming along quite nicely until it got to "xulrunner":

--
[...]
--->  Activating libcanberra @0.28_0+universal
--->  Cleaning libcanberra
Error: Cannot install xulrunner for the arch(s) 'i386' because
Error: its dependency nss is only installed for the arch 'x86_64'
Error: and does not have a universal variant.
architecture mismatch
    while executing
"macports::_upgrade_mport_deps $mport $target"
    (procedure "mportexec" line 33)
    invoked from within
"mportexec $workername $install_target"
Unable to execute target 'install' for port 'xulrunner': architecture mismatch
    while executing
"install_ports $operationList"
    (file "./restore_ports.tcl" line 269)

[21:39] nightowl:/tmp % sudo port installed nss
Password:
The following ports are currently installed:
  nss @3.13.1_0 (active)

[21:47] nightowl:/tmp % lipo -info /opt/local/lib/nss/libnss3.dylib
Non-fat file: /opt/local/lib/nss/libnss3.dylib is architecture: x86_64

[21:47] nightowl:/tmp % grep firefox /tmp/installed_ports 
  firefox-x11 @3.6.13_0 platform='darwin 10' archs='i386'
  firefox-x11 @3.6.15_0 platform='darwin 10' archs='i386'
  firefox-x11 @3.6.16_0 (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='i386'

[21:48] nightowl:/tmp % sudo port installed firefox
None of the specified ports are installed.

[21:48] nightowl:/tmp % sudo port installed firefox-x11
None of the specified ports are installed.

[21:48] nightowl:/tmp % sudo port installed firefox-x11-devel
None of the specified ports are installed.
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This looks suspiciously like Ticket #23424 - nss: add universal variant and support for build_arch

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/23424

which looks like a 2-year-old ticket that has had no fix/movement on in well over a year.

Am I hosed?

Should I try 'cheating' and change the "firefox-x11" to "firefox-x11-devel" in my "installed_ports.txt" file and run it again?

	- Greg