<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ok, solved it myself: It looks like a firewall prevents rsync from working. By Googling I found the workaround in editing the macports.conf file to use https: instead. Now watching installs.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do wonder whether there is a better way than to use Google to find the answer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Uli<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 22, 2018, at 10:18 PM, Ulrich Wienands <<a href="mailto:wienands@gmail.com" class="">wienands@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am trying to get Macports running on a machine that has not had it before.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In install Xcode 7,2.1 and the Developer tools. Starting up Xcode & accept the license agreement. xcode-select --install now says the tools are already installed; so far so good.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Install MacPorts 2.4.3 from the package installer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Run sudo prot selfupdate. Seems to work (but see below).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Trying to install something:</div><div class="">sudo port install wget</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Error: cannot find wget.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Futzing around for a while not getting anywhere. Then trying to update again using the -d flag. this produces the following output:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">uli% sudo port -d selfupdate<br class="">Password:<br class="">DEBUG: Copying /Users/uli/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences<br class="">DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs" class="">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs</a><br class="">---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync<br class="">DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after <a href="rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar" class="">rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar</a> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs" class="">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs</a><br class="">rsync: failed to connect to <a href="http://rsync.macports.org" class="">rsync.macports.org</a>: No route to host (65)<br class="">rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-45/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]<br class="">Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after <a href="rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar" class="">rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar</a> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs" class="">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs</a><br class="">Exit code: 10<br class="">[Ulis-MacBook-Pro:~] uli% <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So it says it cannot connect to <a href="http://rsync.macports.org/" class="">rsync.macports.org</a>. But I can ping it & it responds well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Where am I getting off track here?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Uli</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>