Issues with MacPorts migration from 10.12.6 Sierra to 10.14.6 Mojave

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 7, 2020, at 03:02, Greg Earle wrote:

> But I'm getting a ton of repeated errors like this one:
> 
> --
> Error: Requested variants "" do not match those the build was started with: "+universal".
> Error: Please use the same variants again, or run 'port clean expat' first to remove the existing partially completed build.
> Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_private_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_expat/expat/main.log for details.
> Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
> Error: Processing of port fontconfig failed
> --
> 
> Sometimes instead of "+universal" it's complaining about "+java+universal":
> 
> --
> --->  Computing dependencies for p5.26-xml-sax-base
> --->  Dependencies to be installed: perl5.26 db48 gdbm gettext libiconv ncurses readline
> Error: Requested variants "" do not match those the build was started with: "+java+universal".
> Error: Please use the same variants again, or run 'port clean db48' first to remove the existing partially completed build.
> Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_private_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_databases_db48/db48/main.log for details.
> Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
> Error: Processing of port p5.26-xml-sax-base failed
> --
> 
> All I'm doing is iterating over "port install <portname>", so I have no idea why it's claiming there was a previous "+universal" or "+java+universal" build.
> 
> All I know is that around half of the builds are failing with this issue.  Even though I did a "port -f uninstall installed" beforehand to start clean.
> 
> Any ideas?

Do what it says and clean the affected ports.

sudo port clean expat

sudo port clean db48

etc.