The update could not be unpacked on localhost Mojave

  • Hello all!

    I have several wordpress development installs locally on my Mac in /Library/WebServer/Documents and in my User folder ~/Sites

    Updating via ftp fails, because the download is under Mojave quarantine. Why you are not putting a signature on your update pages? Message while updating:

    The authenticity of wordpress-5.2.3-no-content.zip could not be verified as no signature was found.

    So I try to update manually in the shell:

    rsync -av wordpress-5.2.3 test_wordpress

    But this fails! Ah! first I need to remove all xattr attributes from the new wordpress-download:

    xattr -c -r wordpress-5.2.3

    Now it seems to work. But wordpress is claiming an update again … Perhaps I need to restart the MySQL-Server? One second please: No help! I tried to update with an other WordPress install in /Library/WebServer/Documents over WordPress and ftp itself (Where is the download folder for the update? Nothing in: ~/Downloads nor /tmp nor in WP_to_update itself! Each try the download is restarted from scratch!!!) But here too, /Library/WebServer/Documents/WP_to_update is claiming for an update again (rsync was working!).

    Any help? Best greetings to all and thank you

    marek

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  • I also have this problem on a live site. It’s very strange because other sites on the same server were able to update no problem, and I was able to update all plugins on the site that is getting this error. I’m going update WP manually I guess.

    Thread Starter marek_step

    (@marek_step)

    I am ashamed. But now the update is fixed with this modified rsync command in the shell:

    rsync -av wordpress-5.2.3/ test_wordpress/

    To all best greetings and sorry for the noise!

    marek

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by marek_step.

    @marek_step

    I have several sites that I’m unable to update due to this.

    How do I add “rsync -av wordpress-5.2.3/ test_wordpress/” to the Shell?

    Sorry…I’m a noob! :^\

    Thread Starter marek_step

    (@marek_step)

    Hi fitnessbuddies!

    If you develop locally download the wordpress update, unpack it, move it to your develop folder, open your Terminal/Shell and :

    cd /Users/yourname/sites/

    cd means “change directory”. In this folder is now wordpress-5.2.3 folder and your wordpress-work-folder to update on the same level. Now you issue the following command:

    rsync -av wordpress-5.2.3/ wordpress-work-folder/

    rsync is replacing all newer files from source wordpress-5.2.3 to destination wordpress-work-folder. Important are the slashes in this command. I forgot them, and for that reason asked here in the forum for help.

    Was this clear enough?

    Best greetings

    marek

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