Re: Cirrus CI for macOS branches 16 and 15 broken

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 10:55 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> > I still don't know what's happening.  In case it helps someone else
> > see it, the error comes from "sudo port unsetrequested installed".
> > But in any case, switching to 2.10.1 seems to do the trick.  See
> > attached.
>
> Interesting.  Now that I've finished "sudo port upgrade outdated",
> my laptop is back to a state where unprivileged "port outdated"
> is successful.
>
> What this smells like is that MacPorts has to do some kind of database
> update as a result of its major version change, and there are code
> paths that are not expecting that to get invoked.  It makes sense
> that unprivileged "port outdated" would fail to perform the database
> update, but not quite as much for "sudo port unsetrequested installed"
> to fail.  That case seems like a MacPorts bug; maybe worth filing?

Huh.  Right, interesting theory.  OK, I'll push that patch to use
2.10.1 anyway, and report what we observed to see what they say.

It's funny that when I had an automatic "pick latest" thing, it broke
on their beta release, but when I pinned it to 2.9.3, it broke when
they made a new stable release anyway.  A middle way would be to use a
pattern that skips alpha/beta/etc...