Opened 4 years ago
Last modified 2 years ago
#61472 new defect
"./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt" fails on Big Sur without giving a single hint (what the problem might be, where I could look up details, ...)
Reported by: | ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa) | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 2.6.4 |
Keywords: | bigsur | Cc: | |
Port: |
Description
./restore_ports.tcl myports.txt 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)
Change History (4)
comment:1 follow-up: 2 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)
Replying to ryandesign:
Could be a circular dependency. Try installing a few ports at a time.
Yeah, the only problem is that I had before a few non-default variants
installed…
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)
I might look honest when the documentation would state that the TCL script fails often…
comment:4 Changed 2 years ago by ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)
macOS Big Sur
has gone for me, the cause for this ticket seems to be rare, and so this ticket can be closed.
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Could be a circular dependency. Try installing a few ports at a time.