On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:29, james collins wrote: > If I type: > > sudo port install selfupdate I get an error, first my computer says: > > ----> Updating the ports tree > > Then it hangs on that for a little while, then I get the following error: > > 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 > > Don't know what is wrong
Sounds like you're still having trouble retrieving the ports tree. Did you try any of the alternative methods of obtaining the ports tree? See below: > On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> If that is what's in it, is there perhaps a problem connecting to rsync >> servers from your network? If so, you'll have to tell MacPorts to use some >> other method to get the ports collection, for example http, documented here: >> >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PortTreeTarball >> >> or svn, documented here: >> >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN >> >> Then try to selfupdate again. >> >> _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
