macports through firewall

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 29, 2010, at 04:53, Dr. Madhurjya P. Bora wrote:

> Well, sudo port sync failed!
> 
> ------
> sudo port sync
> Password:
> Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
> Error: updating PortIndex for file://opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/ failed
> ------
> 
> I have followed the instructions from https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN including changing the rsync command to file in the /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf. Is anything left. Any env variables? Regards,

A file: URL needs to have three slashes after the colon, not two. It needs to be:

file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/

not:

file://opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/