[MacPorts] #72681: followed guide for installing MacPorts, but multiple things are failing

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#72681: followed guide for installing MacPorts, but multiple things are failing
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 Reporter:  WadeMasshardt                        |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                               |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal                               |  Milestone:
Component:  ports                                |    Version:  2.11.0
 Keywords:  guide install procedure fails to     |       Port:
  install working MacPorts                       |
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 followed guide at https://www.macports.org/install.php to install MacPorts
 using the .pkg file for macOS 14, but contrary to what the guide says:
 "This procedure will place a fully-functional and default MacPorts
 installation on your host system, ready for usage." it does NOT place a
 functional MacPorts on my system, as the very next command I was told to
 run by the guide: "sudo port -v selfupdate" fails with the following error
 message:

 "% sudo port -v selfupdate
 --->  Checking for newer releases of MacPorts
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
 Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
 Speed
 100    63  100    63    0     0    774      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
 777
 MacPorts base version 2.11.0 installed,
 MacPorts base version 2.11.0 available.
 --->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
 --->  Updating the ports tree
 Synchronizing local ports tree from
 rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar.gz
 chdir: /opt/local/var/macports/home: No such file or directory
 Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after
 --include=/ports.tar.gz --include=/ports.tar.gz.rmd160
 --include=/ports.tar.gz.sig --exclude=*
 rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/
 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/remote
 Exit code: 1
 Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
 Error: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source failed
 Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe
 there is a bug.
 Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the
 ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source failed"

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/72681>
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