selfupdate failed - can't read "verboseflag": no such variable

[alessanderbotti@…]

bash-3.2$ sudo port -v selfupdate
Password:
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 69 bytes  42.00 bytes/sec
total size is 27002880  speedup is 257170.29
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 76 bytes  44.80 bytes/sec
total size is 512  speedup is 4.57
MacPorts base version 2.3.0 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.3.0 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 25.7M  100 25.7M    0     0  5922k      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:-- 7147k
Error: Extracting http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz failed (can't read "verboseflag": no such variable)
Error: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
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Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed

Mac OS X 10.7.5

Xcode 4.3.2, Build version 4E2002

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

I think this one is my fault. It's fixed in r120382, but won't be shipped until the next MacPorts release.

Meanwhile, you can manually apply the patch from r120382 in /opt/local/libexec/macports/lib/macports1.0/macports.tcl.

Merged into the MacPorts 2.3 branch in r120383.

[alessanderbotti@…]

Thanks, it worked! This is my diff, the lines are different from your patch:

--- macports.tcl.bak    2014-05-26 12:08:25.000000000 +0200
+++ macports.tcl        2014-05-26 12:20:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -2496,6 +2496,8 @@
                 if {$macports::portverbose eq {yes}} {
                     set progressflag "--progress builtin"
+                    set verboseflag "-v"
                 } elseif {[info exists macports::ui_options(progress_download)]} {
                     set progressflag "--progress ${macports::ui_options(progress_download)}"
+                    set verboseflag ""
                 }