On 2009-10-16 09:52 , Emmanuel Hainry wrote: > So, the present state is > sync only does some synchronization. > selfupdate updates port itself.
And selfupdate also does sync unless you use --nosync. > It seems clear enough to me. > Also, sync needs to be used far more often than selfupdate, so making > sync do the same as selfupdate would be overkill 90% of the time. Some people also can't do selfupdate because they are behind a rigid firewall which does not allows rsync access to MacOSforge servers. There are alternatives to sync the ports tree over HTTP, but none for the MacPorts source itself. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
