selfupdate fails with '"/tarballs/ports.tar" (in release) failed: No such file or directory'

[Adam Mercer]

Must have been a temporary issue, it's working again now.

Cheers

Adam

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just tried to update my ports tree, with selfupdate, and it's failing
> with the following:
>
> Synchronizing local ports tree from
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
> DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
>
> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de.
> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
>
> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
>
>
> receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/tarballs/ports.tar" (in
> release) failed: No such file or directory (2)
> done
>
> sent 4 bytes  received 9 bytes  8.67 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
> /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-47/rsync/main.c(1400)
> [receiver=2.6.9]
> Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
> Exit code: 23
> Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
> DEBUG: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>     while executing
> "mportsync [array get global_options]"
> port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
> [ram at abhoth ~]$
>
> It does seem that there is no tarball at this location:
>
> [ram at abhoth ~]$ rsync rsync.macports.org::release/tarballs/
>
> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de.
> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
>
> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
>
>
> drwxr-xr-x          4,096 2016/09/11 21:46:57 .
> [ram at abhoth ~]$
>
> Has this location changed?
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam