Ok, solved it myself: It looks like a firewall prevents rsync from working. By Googling I found the workaround in editing the macports.conf file to use https: instead. Now watching installs.
I do wonder whether there is a better way than to use Google to find the answer. Uli > On Apr 22, 2018, at 10:18 PM, Ulrich Wienands <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to get Macports running on a machine that has not had it before. > > Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite) > > In install Xcode 7,2.1 and the Developer tools. Starting up Xcode & accept > the license agreement. xcode-select --install now says the tools are already > installed; so far so good. > > Install MacPorts 2.4.3 from the package installer. > > Run sudo prot selfupdate. Seems to work (but see below). > > Trying to install something: > sudo port install wget > > Error: cannot find wget. > > Futzing around for a while not getting anywhere. Then trying to update again > using the -d flag. this produces the following output: > > uli% sudo port -d selfupdate > Password: > DEBUG: Copying /Users/uli/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to > /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences > DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs > <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs> > ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync > DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after > rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar > <rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar> > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs > rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: No route to host (65) > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at > /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-45/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9] > Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after > rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs > Exit code: 10 > [Ulis-MacBook-Pro:~] uli% > > So it says it cannot connect to rsync.macports.org > <http://rsync.macports.org/>. But I can ping it & it responds well. > > Where am I getting off track here? > > Thanks, > > Uli
