MacPorts OS X 10.6.2 install problem

[Ian Roache]

When I try to install the newest version, either with the install package or via tarball, the config files remain unchanged. I can't edit or replace them because the permissions can't be changed.

Thanks

Ian
On 25/02/2010, at 6:47 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>> On Feb 24, 2010, at 07:20 , Ian Roache wrote:
>>> rsync: getaddrinfo: rsync.opendarwin.org 873: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
>> 
>> This is a DNS error.  And, in fact:
>> 
>> mress:21033 Z$ host rsync.opendarwin.org
>> Host rsync.opendarwin.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>> 
>> (I'm also dubious about "opendarwin.org", although perhaps I shouldn't be.)
> 
> Yep, that's a really old config.
> 
> You should be able to safely install a newer version of macports if you need to. You may be able to just update ${prefix}/etc/macports/sources.conf to have a line like:
> 
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ [default]
> 
> And your ${prefix}/etc/macports/macports.conf to have:
> rsync_server rsync.macports.org
> rsync_dir release/base/
> 
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