my ports are screwed up after OS upgrade and port migrate; some things are fine, many are not

Mark E Anderson mark at macports.org
Tue Sep 17 16:11:39 UTC 2024


I've had luck with it, but yeah there are rough edges. I didn't do a `port migrate` though. qt5 and qt6 needs a patch that's in pull request, gcc14 has some issues. Make sure you update command line tools.

—Mark

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024, at 2:08 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> Sequoia is very early (and MacPorts support for it may be incomplete or minimally tested, as the Xcode detection issues suggest). I usually run most of my systems at least one OS major release behind for at least a few months, or only run them earlier or run betas in an expendable (just re-create as needed) VM for testing.
> 
> > On Sep 17, 2024, at 01:34, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi;
> > 
> >  I can't remember all steps that I took, but all I know now is that I
> > have a really confused MacPorts status.
> > 
> > First of all, I updated to the new MacOS, 15.0 (Sequoia).
> > 
> > Secondly, I think I selected the update to the Command line tools,
> > which showed up after the OS update completed.
> > 
> > Then I tried to download and install xCode v16.  Everything
> > ***seemed*** fine at this point.
> > 
> >  I then ran sudo port migrate, and things went belly up.
> > 
> > current state:
> > 
> > following <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#reinstall-clt>:
> > 
> > pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.{CLTools_Executables,CLTools_Base,DeveloperToolsCLI,DeveloperToolsCLILeo}
> > 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/^version: //p'
> > 16.0.0.0.1.1724870825
> > 
> > but
> > 
> > sudo port diagnose
> > Password:
> > Warning: No Xcode version info was found for your OS version.
> > Warning: The Xcode Command Line Tools package appears to be installed,
> > but its receipt appears to be missing.
> > Warning: The Command Line Tools may be outdated, which can cause problems.
> > Warning: Please see:
> > <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#reinstall-clt>
> > 
> > I tried many times to install, uninstall, install, upgrade various
> > ports.  Many fail, (especially low-level dependencies that most ports
> > require), looks like the tools are not visible...
> > 
> >  I'm stuck in a loop.
> > 
> >  Do I completely do a de-install of MacPorts?  But even then, that
> > won't solve the problem(s) with the SDK and Command Line tools...
> > 
> >  I was wondering if I should wait until longer update the OS, but I
> > thought I would go ahead...
> > 
> >  I had issues that I wanted to resolve with arm symbols not found
> > when running some of the ports (maybe my PATH is really screwed up
> > when building from source?)...
> > 
> >  So I tried to install some ports as binaries, but some could not be
> > found for arm64, so that failed.
> > 
> >  I know that clang and clang++ have been updated successfully and all
> > the things that I have built outside of MacPorts appear to work, but
> > only some (very few) of the ports work or even exist now.
> > 
> > So, what's my next step?  Re-install the OS? Yikes.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ken Wolcott
> > 
> > Sigh...
> > 
> 
> 
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