Trouble upgrading Macports to Sierra

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Barrie Stott <zen146410 at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks for the speedy reply, Chris. It’s a pity I couldn’t use
> ‘selfupdate’ because it appeared to be just what I wanted. Still, I used
> the pkg installer for Sierra and it was reasonably painless. Now I’m on to
> reinstalling all my packages. Thanks again. No reply needed.


The problem with selfupdate is it (a) won't add any new dependencies
because e.g. some library formerly provided by Apple went away or became
incompatible (b) likely won't even start up if that's the case, but crash
immediately with a missing library error. You need to start fresh with a
base that knows about the peculiarities of the new OS release, which means
updating via the installer.

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