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

[Rainer Müller]

On 2018-05-29 18:19, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 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?

Apparently the registry was already updated, but the MacPorts
installation is too old to use it.

I have no idea how that happened (besides manually installing 2.4.x
after selfupdate), but installing MacPorts 2.5.0 should make the
MacPorts installation match the registry format version.

Rainer