I have two systems, an iMac and a Mac Mini. The iMac doesn’t do much - mostly aspell, and so my update to Sierra went quite smoothly.
The Mac Mini on the other hand, is a bit more of a workhorse. Primarily acting as a web server. And, as I updated to Sierra, I discovered to my chagrin that I had been practicing —If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Evidently not updating any ports since I upgraded to El Capitan! Oops. To make a long story short. Instead of first checking to see what kind of updating I needed to do before tackling the new Mac Ports, I just went ahead and followed the migration guide. Everything went smoothly until I hit the rebuiild phase: ./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt This command itself worked well — what happened was that the rebuild through lots of warning errors. Typically of the type: Error: p5.16-perl-ostype has been replaced by p5.22-perl-ostype; please install that instead. Error: org.macports.configure for port p5.16-perl-ostype returned: obsolete port In investigating, I noted that the command: >sudo port outdated No installed ports are outdated. But that this command: >sudo port obsolete Error: Unrecognized action "port obsolete” That behavior seems to be a bug, but I don’t know the expected behavior. At any rate, what I was attempting to do was generate a list of those obsolete and therefore failed installs to make manual installation possible. In particular, I’m assuming that there is a parent install which included these as dependencies, and that if I re-installed that, it would pick-up all of the others. (I seem to have had a bunch of P5.16 modules installed, which should have been updated before I tried to begin the overall update.) Is there an obvious way to find that parent? T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.12 # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.12 mag...@icloud.com mag...@mac.com whmag...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users