selfupdate is broken

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu May 10 15:41:57 PDT 2007


On May 10, 2007, at 09:44, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> It seems that selfupdate got broken:
>
> prunille:~> sudo port -d selfupdate
> DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed.
> Synchronizing from file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports
> DEBUG: /opt/local/bin/svn update --non-interactive "/Users/vinc17/ 
> wd/macosx/dports"
>
> It shouldn't update *my* SVN working copy. It was previously updating
> the standard path (?) with rsync. I suppose that it takes the paths
> from /opt/local/etc/ports/sources.conf, which contains here:
>
> file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports
> file:///Users/vinc17/software/dports
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/dpupdate/dports
>
> But I use this for port installation only.

According to the change notes, sync was intentionally changed to also  
update sources which are Subversion working copies. It's supposed to  
be a new feature, not a bug.

Not sure why you need three ports trees... I get by just fine with  
just one.




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