I just wanted to upgrade my older MacPorts version

[xmartin at iqf.csic.es]

Sorry again. In fact, the the problem seems to be the restrictive corporate network. I was able to run what is said in:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithGit <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithGit>

The “sudo port upgrade outdated” is running, but the question know is, how can I run in the future the equivalent to the older “sudo port selfupdate”?

Thanks again,
Martin
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Dept. of Crystallography & Structural Biology
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Spanish National Research Council
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> El 8 mar 2024, a las 10:18, xmartin at iqf.csic.es escribió:
> 
> Dear Ryan, thanks a lot for your email. Answering to your questions…
> 
> 1) You are right. The directory  /opt/local/var has always been part of MacPorts. In fact, I had a backup of the older version and, obviously this directory was still there… The only important difference is that now this /var directory contains a new subdirectory (called /macports), and not existing in the older MacPorts version, that contains the following subdirectories:
> /build   /distfiles  /home /incoming  /logs  /registry  /sip-workaround   /software  /sources  
> and a file called pingtimes.  Most of those subdirectories contain a lot of directories and files... 
> 
> 
> 2) After typing "sudo port version” I get the following answer:
> [iMac-de-Martin:~] xmartin% sudo port version
> Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'.
> Version: 2.9.1
> 
> 3) I have no antivirus at all and in order to check if the problem arises from any restrictive corporate network, I have conected the iMac to my handy network. The result is exactly the same 
> 
> I hope this can help you to find out the way to solve the situation . In any case, thanks for your effort.
> 
> Martin
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> Dr. Martin Martinez-Ripoll
> Research Professor Emeritus
> xmartin at iqfr.csic.es <mailto:xmartin at iqfr.csic.es>
> Dept. of Crystallography & Structural Biology
> www.xtal.iqfr.csic.es
> Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
> Spanish National Research Council
> www.csic.es
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> El 7 mar 2024, a las 21:26, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org <mailto:ryandesign at macports.org>> escribió:
>> 
>> On Mar 7, 2024, at 06:30, Martin wrote:
>> 
>>> I was running an older MacPorts version on my High Sierra and wanted to upgrade the version just installing the newest one (MacPorts-2.9.1-10.13-HighSierra.pkg <https://github.com/macports/macports-base/releases/download/v2.9.1/MacPorts-2.9.1-10.13-HighSierra.pkg>) existing for my iMac. I did it and and it was made with getting no errors or warnings. 
>> 
>> That should have successfully updated MacPorts base. 
>> 
>>> However, after this installation I only see that there appeared a new directory called /opt/local/var/, but the existing executables are still the old ones (the ones existing in the old  /opt/local/bin directory. 
>> 
>> /opt/local/var has always been part of MacPorts.
>> 
>> Are you saying that "port version" shows an earlier number than 2.9.1? If so, install the pkg again and note any error messages. 
>> 
>>> And when I try to run “sudo port selfupdate”  I get the following error:
>>> 
>>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>>> Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
>>> Please run `port -v selfupdate' for details.
>>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
>>> 
>> 
>> There should be more information about why rsync failed. Probably it is a problem specific to your computer (e.g. restrictive antivirus software) or network (e.g. restrictive corporate network). If you can't fix your computer so that it can talk to rsync servers, see the section "Alternatives for syncing the ports tree without rsync:" at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto>
>> 
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