port selfupdate silently fails

[lcvisser (Ludo Visser)]

I routinely run port selfupdate as suggested by the application (twice a month or so). I noticed I'm still at 2.6.4, while 2.7.1 is available. It seems to silently fail:

% sudo port selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.6.4 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.7.1 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.7.1
Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:wheel; permissions 0755

Running again immediately after:

% sudo port selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.6.4 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.7.1 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.7.1
Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:wheel; permissions 0755

The last message of port -d selfupdate shows:

Command failed: CC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=wheel --with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1
Exit code: 2

More complete output:

% sudo port -d selfupdate 2>&1 > selfupdate_log.txt
Password:
DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar.rmd160 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
DEBUG: successful verification with key /opt/local/share/macports/macports-pubkey.pem
DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/tar -C /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp -xf /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar
DEBUG: Rebuilding and reinstalling MacPorts if needed
DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after --include=/ports.tar --include=/ports.tar.rmd160 --exclude=* rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
DEBUG: successful verification with key /opt/local/share/macports/macports-pubkey.pem
DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/tar -C /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp -xf /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar
DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/PortIndex_darwin_20_i386/PortIndex /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/PortIndex_darwin_20_i386/PortIndex.rmd160 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
DEBUG: successful verification with key /opt/local/share/macports/macports-pubkey.pem
DEBUG: system: chmod -R a+r /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
DEBUG: Permissions OK
DEBUG: system -W /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base: CC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=wheel --with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1

selfupdate_log.txt is attached

I can download the installer for 2.7.1 and move forward, but selfupdate should report a failure.

[lcvisser (Ludo Visser)]

Complete output of "port -d selfupdate"

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Looks like the failure is probably because your command line tools are outdated. The lack of error message was #56549, so it will be fixed once you are updated to the current version.

[lcvisser (Ludo Visser)]

How would I check that the CLT are outdated? I have them installed and there are no pending software updates:

% xcode-select --version
xcode-select version 2384.
% xcode-select --install
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates
% 

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Software Update often won't update the CLTs because of an Apple bug. See ProblemHotlist#reinstall-clt