<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ahh…that helps greatly, thank you!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I notice that most, or even all, of the commands given it the “2.2.3 Git install” directions at <a href="https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.git" class="">https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.git</a> require that I use “sudo”, even though I’m on an admin account. For example, I had to do:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo mkdir -p /iopt/mports</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo ./configure —enable-readline</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sudo make</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">whereas the only commands listed in those directions indicate the need for sudo only in “sudo make install”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Am I doing something wrong?<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Jan2021, at 4:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Jan 27, 2021, at 15:36, Murray Eisenberg wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I don’t understand what it means to try using MacPorts master (2.6.99) instead. You’re assuming far more knowledge or experience than I possess!<br class=""><br class="">Where on GitHub is that version? What do I do with it? If I install it, what happens to all the ports I already installed under Big Sur 11.1 using 2.6.4?<br class=""><br class="">And the cited Comment 3 says that if that does not work, to set the number of simultaneous pings lower, which is what I’m trying to do. So is the cited line in file /opt/local/libexec/macports/lib/port1.0/fetch_common.tcl only for this 2.6.99?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yes. The limit on the simultaneous number of pings was not added to MacPorts until after the currently released version 2.6.4.<br class=""><br class="">2.6.99 (or anything .99) means the master in our repository.<br class=""><br class="">Instructions for building master from source are in the guide:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.git" class="">https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.git</a><br class=""><br class="">Nothing happens to your installed ports.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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