rsync alternative?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:03, Kenneth Rogers wrote:

> The firewall at work is such that I can't use rsync, and my attempts
> to setup an ssh tunnel through another server haven't worked either.
> Is there anyway to selfupdate and sync without rsync?

sync: yes, you can check out a working copy of the ports with  
Subversion and point your MacPorts at it (add the path to the working  
copy to /opt/local/etc/ports/sources.conf

selfupdate: I don't know.