Corrupted ports.tar file?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Apr 13 06:54:49 UTC 2022


Bill Cole wrote:

> Theory: it's a problem related to running the reclaim from the prompt at the tail end of a selfupdate. Incomplete 'portindex' run perhaps?

Good theory. It's likely that when the periodic reclaim run at exit was 
added, it wasn't considered that it might be running after code that 
made it unsafe to do anything but continue to exit.

- Josh



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