From the daily archives: Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Problems with selfupdate when updating a very old macports

By Rufus Pollock On February 13, 2007 · 9 Comments

Just like this guy when trying to do $ port selfupdate I’d get errors like:

Selfupdate failed: couldn’t open “…/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.opendarwin.org_dpupdate1/base/dp_version”: no such file or directory

The problem is that my macports version is very old and after an rsync dp_version is now in base/config rather than just base. Furthermore because the rsync happens before [...]

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