Ah, perfect, thanks (& to Ryan). This now works:
nickel% sudo port version [long delay while bsdtar runs] Version: 2.4.2 This, however, is a bust: nickel% sudo port echo gawk\* Warning: Can't open index file for source: file:///Users/chrjep2/share/macports/ports.tar Error: /opt/local/bin/port: search for portname gawk* failed: No index(es) found! Have you synced your port definitions? Try running 'port selfupdate'. And, of course, "port selfupdate" wants to phone home to rsync.macports.org<http://rsync.macports.org>, which my "banned from the internet" MacBook can't do. Is there something I can do with "port index" that'll clear this up? There seem to be indexes in the extracted ports dir: nickel% ls -ltrd /opt/local/var/macports/portdirs/ports/*dex*17* drwxr-xr-x 4 500 505 128 Jan 30 15:17 /opt/local/var/macports/portdirs/ports/PortIndex_darwin_17_i386/ Chris. On Jan 30, 2018, at 11:23 AM, Rainer Müller <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 2018-01-30 01:15, Jepeway, Chris wrote: This is the last line of sources.conf: file:///Users/chrjep2/share/macports/ports.tar [default] [nosync] The correct syntax would be to put the flags into the same brackets: file:///Users/chrjep2/share/macports/ports.tar [default,nosync] Rainer
