Failure Notice

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 10, 2022, at 07:56, Lenore Horner wrote:

>> You could run "sudo port -fv selfupdate" to force MacPorts to reinstall 2.7.2 even though it thinks it already has. If you try that and it experiences some error, let us know.
> 
> I did that and it failed but then I remembered that things like sudo periodic weekly also fail unless I’m at the top level of my personal hierarchy (~) so I repeated the command from there and it worked.  I’m not sure if that is the way things are supposed to behave, but at least there’s an obvious pattern and a simple solution.

That's not familiar to me.... what error did you get when you weren't at ~?