sudo port selfupdate Doesn't Seem To Work

[Michael Newman]

Yes. That was it. It failed because I had not yet accepted the Xcode license.

Once I did that 2.6.1 was actually installed and I was able upgrade installed ports.

Thank you.

> On Oct 6, 2019, at 07:26, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Michael Newman wrote:
>> What’s going on here?
>> 
>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> MacPorts base version 2.5.4 installed,
>> MacPorts base version 2.6.1 downloaded.
>> --->  Updating the ports tree
>> --->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.6.1
>> Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:wheel; permissions 0775
>> 
>> MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ sudo port selfupdate
>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> MacPorts base version 2.5.4 installed,
>> MacPorts base version 2.6.1 downloaded.
>> --->  Updating the ports tree
>> --->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.6.1
>> Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:wheel; permissions 0775
>> 
>> It seems that 2.6.1 never actually gets installed.
> 
> You're likely running into this bug:
> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56549>
> 
> Using the -v or -d flag to get more verbose output will show you what's
> actually happening, e.g. 'sudo port -d selfupdate'.
> 
> - Josh