Can't Install MacPorts-1.8.0 on Snow Leopard

James Reese jreese99 at verizon.net
Mon Sep 7 15:40:21 PDT 2009


Ryan,

Thanks, that was the information I needed. I was having a network  
issue that I still don't quite understand, but I was able to get  
around it.

Jim


On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>



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