On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Ferret Touch <[email protected]>wrote:

> sudo port selfupdate
>
> which produces :
>
> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>
> that seems really weird, as I'd have thought that with my sources.conf
> file, selfupdate would look for the tarball and not use rsync. The rsync
> fails because of my firewall.
>

Not weird at all.  It is not updating ports; it is updating MacPorts
*itself*.  You cannot control that with sources.conf.

"port sync" updates only the ports, and not the MacPorts base, so it honors
sources.conf.

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