questions regarding selfupdate issue

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 15, 2014, at 2:00 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> On Saturday November 15 2014 19:48:20 Clemens Lang wrote:
> 
>> of interest here. The key is `portfiles_update_needed` being present and set
>> to one, which means the conversion didn't run or successfully finish on your
> 
> Yes, that's what I figured too...
> 
>> system. You will have to run it again, e.g. by running
>> sudo port -df selfupdate.
>> If it fails again, you should at least see some error output.
> 
> Well, it didn't fail, and now the update_needed flag is gone.
> 
> I did have the présence d'esprit to re-run port selfupdate after the initial failure, and it finished correctly. How come it didn't do the db update too?

If "sudo port selfupdate" updates the MacPorts version, then you must run "sudo port selfupdate" a second time to index the ports with that new version; MacPorts prints a message telling you to do this. Is that perhaps related in this case? Do you always run selfupdate a second time when prompted to do so? Does the conversion perhaps happen after the second selfupdate?