Unclear error message while getting started
$ sudo port selfupdate Password: Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes? --- Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: shell command failed (see log for details) $ sudo port sync Password: Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes? Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed So several questions, but first note this is an absolutely fresh install: 1. what log file? How should I know where it is? 2. If I am doing a sync, how can it be that I haven't synced my source indexes? 3. Why don't the installation guides talk of what is needed to get started? 4. All I really want are a few command line tools (like guile). This is an awful lot of learning and futzing and struggling for such simple needs. Thank you! Regards, Bruce ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
Re: Unclear error message while getting started
2. If I am doing a sync, how can it be that I haven't synced my source indexes? Your ISP or firewall is blocking the actual process, otherwise it would just work, as you expected. You can see this by repeating your command with the debug flag (sudo port -d selfupdate). Please consider these alternatives: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PortTreeTarball https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
Re: Unclear error message while getting started
Yeah, likely a firewall. The policy here is block everything first and ask questions later. I'll try again when I get home. Thank you. Suggestion: add you may be behind a firewall to the error message. :) Thank you! - Bruce On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org wrote: 2. If I am doing a sync, how can it be that I haven't synced my source indexes? Your ISP or firewall is blocking the actual process, otherwise it would just work, as you expected. You can see this by repeating your command with the debug flag (sudo port -d selfupdate). Please consider these alternatives: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PortTreeTarball https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
