MacPorts rsync is broken?

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

I verified that the corporate VPN was the problem in my case, with error
detail "Operation timed out (60)".  Of course this does not count as a
malfunctioning server.


On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <
dave.allured at noaa.gov> wrote:

> I was seeing the same thing intermittently over the last few days.  I'm on
> MP 2.10.7 on Sonoma and Intel.  At one point, exiting my corporate VPM
> enabled the rsync to complete.  This is not conclusive because the behavior
> was not consistent.  One might try different mirrors as described in this
> FAQ.
>
>      https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#selfupdatefails
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM Sergey Fedorov <vital.had at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is on Sonoma, not PowerPC:
>>
>> Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://
>> rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar
>>
>> rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Connection refused (61)
>>
>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at
>> /AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/289ffcb4-455d-11ef-953d-e2437461156c/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync/clientserver.c(109)
>> [receiver=2.6.9]
>>
>> Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after --include=/ports.tar
>> --include=/ports.tar.rmd160 --exclude=* rsync://
>> rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/
>> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
>> rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
>>
>> Exit code: 10
>>
>> Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
>>
>> port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source failed
>>
>
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