updating a very old Macports install

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

>> See below:
>> expected integer but got "-exclusive" obtaining lock on
>> /opt/local/var/macports/registry/.registry.lock
>>    while executing
>> "registry::exclusive_lock"
>>    (procedure "mportexec" line 32)
> 
> You appear to be running trunk. You could take this opportunity to go
> back to a released version of base; or you could just accept this aspect
> of living on trunk. :)

Could you elaborate? Are you saying he was running an old version of trunk before the update, or that he is running the current version of trunk now? Why does this error occur, and is it something that's going to happen for some stable-to-stable updates in the future, or is it only a problem with trunk that will be (or was) fixed before release?