> On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> port sync is what fetches in updates from the main repository. If you don't
> run this you will never get any port updates, so you should get into the
> habit of doing it periodically, then running `sudo port upgrade outdated` to
> actually update your installed ports.
OK, that’s good to keep in mind for the future. I’m still a bit surprised that
a fresh install was missing such an important dependency. The installation web
page for the .pkg installer doesn’t mention it, and in fact implies that
selfupdate does a sync automatically. I wonder if that failed for some reason,
and I didn’t notice.
Noam
