upgrading MacPorts after updating from 10.6 to 10.9 - missing gnutar?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Feb 19, 2014, at 8:27 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So I uninstalled and cleaned my MacPorts installation as instructed and the called restore.tcl . Now builds are failing with
> 
> :debug:extract Executing command line:  cd "/Volumes/Debian/MacPorts/var/macports/build/_Volumes_Debian_MacPorts_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_bsdmake/bsdmake/work" && /usr/bin/gzip -dc '/Volumes/Debian/MacPorts/var/macports/distfiles/bsdmake/bsdmake-24.tar.gz' | /usr/bin/gnutar --no-same-owner -xf - 
> :info:extract sh: /usr/bin/gnutar: No such file or directory
> 
> Indeed I have no /usr/bin/gnutar, and I don't see where in the MacPorts conf files this parameters is set?

you didn't follow the Migration instructions correctly, specifically you missed https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration#ReinstallMacPorts

[MacPorts picks up which tar/gnutar to use at install time]

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