I have my own fork of the macports-ports repository on GitHub so I can do maintenance. I have a local clone of that fork
When I want to update ports I do not maintain, do the following. First I make sure my clone is up to date with the upstream original, then I push the clone back to my GitHub fork. Then I run portindex. ‘upstream’ is the official repo, origin is my fork git fetch upstream git checkout master git reset --hard upstream/master git push origin master --force portindex But when I do that, I still get: albus:macports-ports sysbh$ port list updated Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'. (Should have said ‘outdated’ of course, this doesn’t give me a warning) But port self update overwrites everything using rsync and doesn’t go via git. So, it is a parallel and possibly trouble-creating route. I want update my local tree entirely via git. Still, with a clean clone of of an up-to-date fork, I can do it: sudo port selfupdate Password: ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync MacPorts base version 2.6.2 installed, MacPorts base version 2.6.2 downloaded. ---> Updating the ports tree ---> MacPorts base is already the latest version What is the way to go when updating, using your own clone of your own fork of the git repo? G
