Eric Gallager via macports-users <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 1:03 PM Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Feb 7, 2021, at 20:59, Eric Gallager wrote: >> >> > When restore_ports.tcl gets stuck building its list of ports to >> > restore, is there a way to get it to tell you which ports exactly it's >> > failing to process? i.e., which ports to remove from your myports.txt >> > to get it to continue? >> >> I don't know. In what way is it getting stuck? > > It's the part on the Troubleshooting section of the wiki page where it says: > > If you see an "infinite loop" error message, such as this: > > Error: we appear to be stuck, exiting... > infinite loop > while executing > "sort_ports $portList" > invoked from within > "set operationList [sort_ports $portList]" > (file "./restore_ports.tcl" line 285) > > it indicates that the script has a list of ports to install, and it > can't figure out which of the ports to install next. > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration#Troubleshooting > > The workaround it suggests to deal with this issue is "to reduce your > list of ports to install, until it no longer has a dependency cycle," > but it doesn't say exactly HOW to go about choosing which ports to > remove from the list in order to reduce its length. > My myports.txt file has 6147 lines in it. I don't know where to begin with it. The usual way of tackling these kinds of problems is "bisecting". Divide the list in two halves, and try each of these separately. If a half fails, then divide it in two halves again, etc. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4]
