On Mar 3, 2008, at 05:30, Kevin Frost wrote: > Greetings. I thought you might be interested to know that the > problem described here is still present: > > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-January/ > 008199.html > > I got exactly the same error, persistently, when running the > installer on a fresh Leopard on a G4 Powerbook 15" (last model made). > > Running from behind a firewall and not behind a firewall both gave > the same error. The network connection itself was fine, a standard > residential DSL with no other problems. > > About 10 minutes after the installer package failed (non-firewall) > with the rsync refusal, `port -d selfupdate` appeared to work (see > below). > > The software is working fine now. However, I think it's a pretty > major bug: I had to look in the install log to get the hint about > selfupdate, and I can easily imagine people never getting that > far. While you could argue that the target audience should know > how to solve this problem, I do think at least some people look to > MacPorts to make the whole "Unix thing" less difficult, and at the > moment the installer makes it pretty difficult. > > Anyhow, I still love MacPorts. Please escalate for the sake of the > noobs. ;-) > > cheers > > -- frosty > > > Quoth port -d selfupdate: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo port -d selfupdate > Password: > DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. > DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s) > Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/ > release/ports/ > DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync:// > rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ > rsync.macports.org/release/ports > receiving file list ... done > www/webkit-gtk/ > > sent 74 bytes received 314844 bytes 3297.57 bytes/sec > total size is 16975633 speedup is 53.90 > DEBUG: MacPorts base dir: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ > rsync.macports.org/release/base > DEBUG: Setting user: root > > MacPorts base version 1.600 installed > DEBUG: Updating using rsync > receiving file list ... done > > sent 73 bytes received 6685 bytes 13516.00 bytes/sec > total size is 3962384 speedup is 586.32 > > Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600 > > The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated > DEBUG: Setting ownership to root > selfupdate done! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
I agree this should be fixed. We definitely want to make MacPorts easier to use. I'm sending this to the macports-users mailing list also so that people see again that it's still a problem in 1.6.0. I don't remember if this has already been fixed in trunk. Our release manager has been busy with other things which is why there hasn't been a new MacPorts release in awhile, though we already have many new things in trunk that should be released. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
