On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 2:07 AM Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote: > [14:01:37.431] Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize > MacPorts, sqlite error: attempt to write a readonly database (8) while > executing query: CREATE INDEX registry.snapshot_file_id ON > snapshot_files(id)
Hmmm. Basically there is a loop-back disk device that get cached between runs (same technique as ccache), on which macports is installed. This makes it ready to test stuff fast, with all the dependencies ready and being updated only when they need to be upgraded. It is both clever and scary due to the path dependency... (Cf other OSes, where we have a base image with all the right packages installed already, no "memory" between runs like that.) The macOS major version and hash of the MacPorts package install script are in the cache key for that (see 64c39bd5), so a change to that script would make a totally fresh installation, and hopefully work. I will look into that, but it would also be nice to understand how it go itself into that state so we can avoid it... > I know there have been some changes recently to manage the OS version > change. Are these older branches expected to work? Yes.
