On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 23:06, Stefan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Clean (from scratch) installation of Lion (10.7.3), followed by XCode >> 4.3 (4E109), followed by Command Line Tools install via XCode >> Preferences -> Downloads -> Components, followed by >> MacPorts-2.0.4-10.7-Lion.dmg -> pkg install, leads to: >> >> $ sudo port upgrade >> Warning: xcodebuild exists but failed to execute >> Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("Could not >> find Portfile in /Users/my-username"). > > > The other problem here is that "upgrade" without an argument will try to > update the port in the current directory. If the current directory doesn't > have a Portfile in it, you will get that error. If you're not a port > developer, you would normally specify a port to be upgraded, or "outdated" > to upgrade all installed ports that are out of date; but on a fresh install > you won't have any ports to upgrade anyway. > > Did you want "sudo port selfupdate" there instead? > >> >> $ echo $PATH >> >> /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin >> >> $sudo su - >> # port upgrade >> -sh: port: command not found > > > "su -" will give you root's default $PATH, which doesn't have /opt/local/bin > in it (and shouldn't; I would not mess with root's default path on OS X, > since I consider that account to "belong" to Apple and as such is likely > subject to unexpected modification by Apple Software Update). You almost > certainly didn't intend to do that. Probably "sudo -s" was what you wanted. > > -- > brandon s allbery [email protected] > wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms >
DUH!!! ... too long of a week - OF COURSE it was supposed to be 'sudo port selfupdate' ! I was typing w/out one second of thinking what :-( Thanks Brandon! ***Stefan Mititelu http://twitter.com/netfortius http://www.linkedin.com/in/netfortius _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
