I've been building mythtv from John Hoyt's script (it uses macports extensively). I have made a successful build but there we minor isssues
on redoing I forgot to sync with git, with rsync update the build failed with a missing file. I followed https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithGit uninstalled all ports $ sudo port -fp uninstall installed and ... ws102:sources jam$ ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 jam admin 64 25 Dec 23:03 github.com drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 23 Dec 22:57 rsync.macports.org ws102:sources jam$ git clone https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git github.com/macports/macports-ports/ Cloning into 'github.com/macports/macports-ports'... remote: Enumerating objects: 1375190, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (278/278), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (143/143), done. remote: Total 1375190 (delta 115), reused 251 (delta 104), pack-reused 1374912 Receiving objects: 100% (1375190/1375190), 326.20 MiB | 2.12 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (788236/788236), done. Updating files: 100% (24358/24358), done. ws102:sources jam$ sudo port sync -v Password: ---> Updating the ports tree Now waits for ever Can anybody guide me please James