The svn method of syncing uses port 80.

-Bill



On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Noah Leaman wrote:
Is it possible to have an officially supported rsync service that
listens on port 80 for people like us who cannot get standard rsync
ports opened up on the firewall? Is there a technical reason why I
can't be done or is it a resource issue?

-- Noah

On Mar 24, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

Bryan Blackburn wrote:
If you set the standard curl proxy environment variables (http_proxy,
FTP_PROXY, etc; see 'man curl'), this should get fetching of sources
to work through the proxy.

According to ticket #13158 [1], you have to specify your proxy on the
command line if using sudo, as it normally unsets environment
variables:

$ sudo env http_proxy='foobar' port fetch $portname

This is still missing from the HOWTO section in the wiki [2], but
requested. Any volunteers? :-)

However, for selfupdate, which uses rsync, there isn't a way to use
the proxy.  I think in this case you have to use a subversion-based
repository instead.  For this you need to checkout MacPorts[1], then
updated your ${prefix}/etc/macports/sources.conf to point to the
location of the dports directory instead of the rsync:// line.

Unfortunately if rsync is unavailable, there is no other way of
updating
base than downloading sources and compiling manually. But the ports
tree
can be synced with svn over HTTP/HTTPS.

Rainer

[1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13158
[2] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/howto/
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