MacPort selfupdate using SVN

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 11, 2015, at 5:19 AM, Jackson Isaac wrote:

> I tried using the http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PortTreeTarball
> method. For this it shows the following output:
> 
> """
> DEBUG: Copying /Users/JacksonIsaac/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist
> to /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences
> --->  Updating the ports tree
> Synchronizing local ports tree from https://distfiles.macports.org/ports.tar.gz
> Warning: Cannot check if https://distfiles.macports.org/ports.tar.gz
> was updated, (Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA
> certificates)
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
>  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01
> --:--:--     0Error: Fetching
> https://distfiles.macports.org/ports.tar.gz failed (SSL certificate
> problem: Invalid certificate chain)
> DEBUG: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>    while executing
> "mportsync [array get global_options]"
> port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
> """
> 
> As a workaround I used http:// instead of https. So it would be better
> if this is also mentioned in the wiki/PortTreeTarball. Can I update
> the wiki for this?

Anyone with a Trac account can edit the wiki. (And anyone can create a Trac account.)

However, instead of recommending users use an insecure connection, we should figure out why the secure connection isn't working, and fix that.