unable to selfupdate port and install any packages on Snow Leopard

[Shashwat Anand]

I added RSYN_PROXY environment variable in my .bash_profile and added
Defaults    env_keep += "RSYNC_PROXY" in /etc/sudoers and voila ..it worked.
Problem fixed.


On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2010, at 20:26, Shashwat Anand wrote:
>
> > I installed macports-1.8.2 from dmg
> > since rsync does not play well with my proxy, I followed instructions
> from here: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN
> > I installed the initial copy.
> > The last two lines of the file /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
> > #      rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ [default]
> > file:////opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/[default]
> >
> > Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:dports l0nwlf$ pwd
> > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports
> > Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:dports l0nwlf$ ls
> > PortIndex       databases       gnome           net             security
> > PortIndex.quick devel           gnustep         news            shells
> > _resources      editors         graphics        office          sysutils
> > aqua            emulators       irc             palm            tex
> > archivers       erlang          java            perl            textproc
> > audio           finance         kde             php             www
> > benchmarks      fuse            lang            print           x11
> > cad             games           mail            python          xfce
> > comms           genealogy       math            ruby            zope
> > cross           gis             multimedia      science
> >
> > Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:dports l0nwlf$ sudo port -d sync
> > Password:
> > DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)
> > Synchronizing local ports tree from
> file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/
> > DEBUG: /usr/bin/svn update --non-interactive
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports
> > DEBUG: changing euid/egid - current euid: 0 - current egid: 0
> > At revision 63709.
> >
> > Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:dports l0nwlf$ sudo port -v selfupdate
> > Password:
> > --->  Updating the ports tree
> > Synchronizing local ports tree from
> file:////opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/
> > U    /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
> svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/audio/portmidi/Portfile
> > Updated to revision 63709.
> > --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
> > rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
> > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at
> /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-37.3/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
> > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing
> MacPorts sources: shell command "/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/base/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/
> rsync.macports.org/release/base" returned error 10
> >
> > Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:dports l0nwlf$ sudo port install
> > Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("Could not find
> Portfile in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports
> ").
> > Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.
> > To use the current port, you must be in a port's directory.
> > (you might also see this message if a pseudo-port such as
> > outdated or installed expands to no ports).
> >
> > Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:dports l0nwlf$ sudo port install bpython
> > Error: Port bpython not found
> > Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to
> get complete output.
> >
> > How to selfupdate and install packages ?
>
> selfupdate does two things: updates your portfiles and updates MacPorts
> base. Portfiles can be updated using a number of different network
> protocols; you've elected to use a Subversion working copy so your portfiles
> will be updated from our Subversion http server. Updating base, on the other
> hand, happens exclusively via rsync. Since you've said rsync doesn't work on
> your network, you cannot use selfupdate to update base. You will have to
> manually install new versions of base as they are released. You can do so
> using the Mac OS X installer packages on dmg, or by building from source,
> whichever you prefer. Since you cannot use selfupdate to update base, you
> may want to instead use "sudo port sync" to update your portfiles.
>
> You install ports as normal: sudo port install portname. The errors you
> encountered above are simply explained: "sudo port install" correctly
> informed you that you were not in the directory of a port, therefore there
> was nothing to install. And "sudo port install bpython" correctly informed
> you there is no port called "bpython". "port search bpython" shows that you
> may be looking for the port called "py26-bpython".
>
>
>
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