Problem w/ Selfupdate

[Rainer Müller]

On 2010-07-09 20:51 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jul 9, 2010, at 13:46, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote:
> 
>> I actually use subversion to sync my ports.  And that part works. 
>> Should I then never run selfupdate?
> 
> You should keep your MacPorts base installation up to date. Whether
> you do so by running selfupdate, or by installing new versions of
> MacPorts using the disk image installers on our web site, or by
> compiling MacPorts from source, is up to you.
> 
> If you are able to "svn up" your ports tree, why is MacPorts not able
> to do so for you when you selfupdate? This should work; it works for
> me.

The base source is always distributed over rsync. Other methods only
exist for the ports tree. If you are unable to use rsync due to firewall
restrictions, use "sudo port sync" instead to get the Portfile
definitions. But as Ryan said you would have to update base manually in
this case.

Rainer