On 23/12/2009, at 12:57 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Dec 22, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Peter B. West wrote: >> lydia:Downloads pbw$ port selfupdate >> ---> Updating the ports tree >> Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync >> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports >> tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed >> >> Any ideas? > > http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#selfupdatefails
Had a look at that. Tried the sudo port -d selfupdate and it worked. I followed the instructions at the end of the output: MacPorts base version 1.8.1 downloaded. ---> MacPorts base is already the latest version DEBUG: Setting MacPorts sources ownership to root The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run port upgrade outdated lydia:local pbw$ sudo port upgrade outdated Error: Unable to open port: can't read "build.cmd": Failed to locate 'make' in path: '/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' or at its MacPorts configuration time location, did you move it? lydia:local pbw$ which make lydia:local pbw$ echo $PATH /opt/subversion/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/bin:/opt/local/share/java/apache-ant/bin:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans/6.7/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/bin:/Users/pbw/bin:/Users/pbw/src/perl:/Users/pbw/src/sh:/Users/pbw/src/tcl:/Applications/oxygen:/opt/pbw/idea/bin:/opt/scala/bin:. Make has gone away. I swear I didn't touch it. Could a normal Mac software update have affected it? Peter _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users