O.T. Can I use my Mac Ports install to build odt2txt?

[Peter B. West]

On 03/09/2009, at 3:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Sep 3, 2009, at 00:43, Peter B. West wrote:
>
>> On 03/09/2009, at 2:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 2, 2009, at 23:46, Peter B. West wrote:
>>>
>>>> lydia:Desktop pbw$ sudo port sync
>>>> Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
>>>> port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>>>
>>> Ok, try the debug switch to find out why.
>>>
>>> sudo port -d sync
>>>
>>
>> lydia:Desktop pbw$ sudo port -d sync
>> DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)
>> Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
>> DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ 
>>  /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports
>> rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Connection refused  
>> (61)
>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ 
>> rsync-37.3/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
>> Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
>> DEBUG: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>>   while executing
>> "mportsync [array get global_options]"
>> port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>
> I assume you have been able to sync before? Has anything changed on  
> your network since then? Is the rsync port (873) blocked perhaps?
>
> You may want to switch to using our new Australian mirror for your  
> ports. It might be faster. Once you get it working at all.
>
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Mirrors
>
> If rsync just won't work on your network, you can switch to using a  
> Subversion working copy for your ports.
>
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN

No, I had never done a sync before - new Mac user, new MacPorts user.

Yes, it's working now because I'm back at home, so presumably the  
firewall at work is no longer blocking traffic (or some such work- 
related problem.)

Thanks for your patient input.

Peter