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osprey
osprey

Reputation: 768

How to resolve requested variants error when upgrading macports

After reinstalling macports on MacOS after upgrading from High Sierra (darwin17) to Mojave (darwin18), while reinstalling previously installed ports using the the restore_ports.tcl script provided by macports, I am receiving:

Error: Requested variants "" do not match those the build was started with: "+universal".

I understand that I can resolve this error on a case-by-case basis by passing the +x86_64 argument to the macports install command. The problem is that I am attempting to reinstall my many ports using the restore_ports.tcl script rather than installing them by hand.

Is there some way to fix this error when running the restore_ports script? Can I modify the installed ports text file passed to the script? Is there an architecture argument I can pass to the script?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 520

Answers (1)

osprey
osprey

Reputation: 768

Thanks for comment from jdv. Over at apple.stackexchange.com I encountered an unrelated macports question that mentioned macports.conf. I found that the universal_archs flag in my macports.conf was set to x86_64 i386. Removed the i386 and now ports are installing fine.

Upvotes: 2

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