port not installing

[M P]

The admin used CarbonCopy for backup. Any suggestions

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:11 PM M P <mzp3769 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Listing of directory
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
> rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs^%
> is
>
> drwxr-xr-x  29 messagebus  505         928 Oct  3 02:32 base/
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root        wheel  85608960 Oct  3 02:43 base.tar
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root        wheel       512 Oct  3 02:43 base.tar.rmd160
>
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root        505          96 Oct  8 20:08 ports/
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root        wheel  64587776 Oct  8 21:01 ports.tar
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root        wheel       512 Oct  8 21:01 ports.tar.rmd160
>
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root        wheel        96 Oct  8 21:38 tmp/
>
>
> However, ports
>
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  505  128 Aug 22  2017 pxlib/
>
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  505  128 Aug 22  2017 rethinkdb/
>
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  505  128 Aug 22  2017 tokyocabinet-java/
>
>
> are all empty.
>
>
> I will ask tomorrow what the admin used for backup but quite likely
> TimeMachine.
>
> After motherboard exchange Apple installed Mojave so I did not do the
> upgrade myself.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 6:45 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2018, at 22:50, M P wrote:
>>
>> > DEBUG: successful verification with key
>> /opt/local/share/macports/macports-pubkey.pem
>> > DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/tar -C /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
>> rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp -xf
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
>> rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar
>>
>> Ok, so it verified the tarball, and started to extract it. So it may have
>> failed during extraction. Does the directory
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
>> rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports exist and does it
>> contain what it should?
>>
>>
>> > There are a few other ports that don't install e.g.
>> > %sudo port install R
>> > Error: Port R not found
>> >
>> > and some produce this odd (not in the ports tree - ?) message with
>> warning
>> > %sudo port install xxdiff
>> > Password:
>> > Warning: Skipping xxdiff (not in the ports tree)
>> > --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
>> > --->  No broken files found.
>> > --->  No broken ports found.
>>
>> You have no portindex right now, so as far as your MacPorts knows, there
>> are no ports in the tree, so you cannot install any ports.
>>
>>
>> > This is a mac after a major repair with replaced motherboard. My admin
>> made a backup copy on HD and reinstalled most back from Sierra to Mojave.
>> Macports worked fine before when I installed back in 2017.
>>
>> Ok, you replaced the logic board and backed up your disk, erased it, and
>> restored it. How was the backup and restore accomplished? Time Machine?
>> Carbon Copy Cloner? SuperDuper? Something else?
>>
>> I know from personal experience that Carbon Copy Cloner reliably clones
>> disks. My understanding is that SuperDuper does too. If your admin used one
>> of those two methods, it should be working.
>>
>> I know from personal experience that restoring from a Time Machine backup
>> does not restore MacPorts user accounts correctly -- Apple "helpfully"
>> moves all user accounts to /Users, which breaks the macports user and all
>> of the users that MacPorts ports might create. If you have restored using
>> Time Machine, you'll have to find all the user account directories that
>> were moved to /Users and move them back where they belong, and use dscl to
>> fix the home directory entry for each user account as well. Last time I had
>> to restore from Time Machine, sorting this out was a real mess, so I hope
>> this is not the situation you're in...
>>
>> And as Chris said, if you upgraded from Sierra to Mojave, you'll need to
>> follow the migration instructions. Did you? The fact that the port command
>> isn't complaining about this suggests that you already at least reinstalled
>> MacPorts for Mojave.
>>
>>
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