rsync failed

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:32:20AM +0100, Marc Chantreux said:
> hello everybody, 
> 
> I'm trying to do a macport install behind a firewall that is blocking
> rsync. I decided to create an ssh tunnel to do it.
> 
> $ grep ^rsync /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf 
> rsync://localhost/release/ports/
> 
> local rsync port is forwarded so i tried to selfupdate. as you can see
> at line 19, something, somewhere, kept the real name of the rsync server
> so the connection failed.

Did you also update the rsync_server setting in
/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf?  I believe that is the one used for
the base source code (the one in sources.conf is for the Portfile
repository).

Bryan


> 
> does someone knows a workaround ? 
> regards
> 
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