When I typed port, portmirror or anything related to darwinports (macports), I got a strange error with no google hits.

# portmirror
can't find package macports
while executing
"package require macports"
(file "/opt/local/bin/portmirror" line 11)
stormbringer:~/phonedmg root# port
can't find package macports
while executing
"package require macports"
(file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 42)


The solution was to download macports 1.5 and run it again. It’s been a while since I had used ports on my Mac and maybe the project got renamed or changed. I dunno.

Then “port selfupdate” failed with “Directory not empty” errors from mv:rename so I did this:

mv /opt/local/var/db/dports/distfiles/ /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles
mv /opt/local/var/db/dports/receipts/ /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/
mv /opt/local/var/db/dports/software/ /opt/local/var/macports/software/

Then it seemed to work:

# port selfupdate
MacPorts base version 1.5 installed
Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.510
Configuring, Building and Installing new MacPorts base
selfupdate done!