[MacPorts] #16954: rsync always used for selfupdate, which has issues when behind a firewall (was: rsync behind firewall problem)

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#16954: rsync always used for selfupdate, which has issues when behind a firewall
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  Reporter:  asbjorn at ulsberg.no  |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
      Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
  Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:  MacPorts base bugs                   
 Component:  base                |     Version:  1.6.0                                
Resolution:                      |    Keywords:  rsync svn update selfupdate sync     
      Port:                      |  
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Changes (by blb at macports.org):

  * component:  ports => base


Comment:

 Was the latter output from running selfupdate?  I believe that it still
 uses rsync regardless of how you have the ports tree installed on your
 system.  At least if I'm reading
 [http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl?rev=40834#L1803
 the source] right.

 Since you're running MacPorts 1.6, selfupdate won't be doing anything
 right now since that's the current versioned release.  Long term, syncing
 for selfupdate via other means should be supported.

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