Hi Brandon, Thank you for that fast and extremely helpful response! You were exactly right. I commented out the rsync_dir line in my macports.conf file, and now selfupdate works like a dream.
Thanks again, Will On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 5:45 PM, William Graves < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Running Mac OS 10.10.5, I am trying to update MacPorts, but it’s giving >> me an error. Unfortunately, the problem is not obvious, so I’m pasting the >> output below from running: >> sudo port -d selfupdate >> > > This looks like it might be the rsync_dir issue. If you have rsync_dir > uncommented in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf, you will want to > comment it out or edit it; one copied forward from older macports releases > will be wrong and lead to this kind of failure. > > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > [email protected] > [email protected] > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net >
