Hey there I got this output from the -d self update, plz help.

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue May 29 16:19:43 UTC 2018


On May 29, 2018, at 08:58, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2018-05-29 06:24, Shuvayan wrote:
> 
>>> On 29-May-2018, at 9:47 AM, Shuvayan wrote:
>>> 
>>> Output:DEBUG: Copying
>>> /Users/shuvayan/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to
>>> /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences
>>> Version number in metadata table is newer than expected.
>>>     while executing
>>> "registry::open $db_path"
>>>     (procedure "mportinit" line 642)
>>>     invoked from within
>>> "mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
>>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, Version
>>> number in metadata table is newer than expected.
>>> 
>> 
> 
> I am not sure how you got into this state, but you should be able to
> recover by installing MacPorts 2.5.0 from the .pkg installer.

Isn't the metadata table part of the registry? Why would reinstalling MacPorts affect the registry?




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