Can't Install MacPorts-1.8.0 on Snow Leopard

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 7, 2009, at 14:41, James Reese wrote:

[snip]

> I then ran the Snow Leopard installer package. This is what appears  
> in the installer log:

[snip]

> Sep  7 14:40:49 Gauss installd[1158]: ./postflight: aqua/dnsupdate27/ 
> files/patch-DNSUpdate2.pbproj-project.pbxproj.diff
> Sep  7 14:40:49 Gauss installd[1158]: ./postflight: aqua/dnsupdate27/ 
> files/patch-DUInterface.h.diff
> Sep  7 14:40:49 Gauss installd[1158]: ./postflight: aqua/dnsupdate27/ 
> files/patch-logmessages.diff
> Sep  7 14:40:49 Gauss installd[1158]: ./postflight: aqua/emacs-app- 
> devel/
> Sep  7 14:40:49 Gauss installd[1158]: ./postflight: aqua/emacs-app- 
> devel/Portfile

[snip]

And it stops there? MacPorts is trying to download its portfiles from  
our rsync server, and apparently stalling at some point. I believe  
MacPorts has been successfully installed at this point, just your  
portfiles are not completely there. I think you can cancel (or, worst  
case, force-quit) the Installer and use "sudo port sync" to try again  
to get the portfiles. You may want to use the verbose option ("sudo  
port -d sync") so you can see if it stalls again. If rsync is  
problematic on your network, you can use a Subversion working copy  
instead; instructions are in the wiki.