users confusing selfupdate and sync

[Rainer Müller]

On 2009-10-16 09:52 , Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
> So, the present state is
> sync only does some synchronization.
> selfupdate updates port itself.

And selfupdate also does sync unless you use --nosync.

> It seems clear enough to me.
> Also, sync needs to be used far more often than selfupdate, so making
> sync do the same as selfupdate would be overkill 90% of the time.

Some people also can't do selfupdate because they are behind a rigid
firewall which does not allows rsync access to MacOSforge servers. There
are alternatives to sync the ports tree over HTTP, but none for the
MacPorts source itself.

Rainer