yes, you are correct. selfupdate does indeed effectively also do a sync.
quite why you where missing the port index before running sync by hand
is impossible to say without the detail logs from those failed runs,
which I am sure you don't have.
Chris
On 23/08/2019 4:25 pm, Noam Bernstein via macports-users wrote:
On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Chris Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
<mailto:jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>> 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upgrade outdated` to actually update your installed ports.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
