ports upgrade outdated problem

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 14:31:15 PDT 2013


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Comer Duncan <comer.duncan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I upgraded to Mavericks a couple of days ago. I installed Xcode and
> command line tools.  Today I am trying to run my little script to
> occasionally upgrade outdated stuff.  Here is what I tried:
>

Always, always, always do http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration after an
OS upgrade. Apple is prone to make major changes in new OS releases;
MacPorts (and Homebrew and Fink and any other package installer) *will*
break.

One of the changes is that /usr/bin/gnutar is no longer a thing in 10.9, so
a MacPorts installed when it existed will still try to use it and fail. As
noted on the Migration page, you need to reinstall the MacPorts base so you
will get a version that doesn't rely on programs that Apple no longer
ships. As we do not yet have a handy installer, this currently means
installing from source. See
https://www.macports.org/guide/#installing.macports.source for details.

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