Error: Unable to open port: invalid command name "installs_libs"

[Andrew Todd]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> Correct, selfupdate always uses rsync. There is no setting to change this. MacPorts 2.0.x does not change this.
>
> You can use the 2.0.1 .dmg installer to upgrade your MacPorts. This will not adversely affect any ports you have installed.

Thanks, I was able to upgrade using the installer. Although I should
mention that the installer still hangs near the end and requires a
force-quit just as it did with 1.9.2 -- I presume because of the rsync
issue. I realize that this is an edge case, but it's not exactly
friendly failure.

> We don't appear to cache the homepage at all on our end (it's being re-generated by PHP every time it's accessed) and we updated the homepage to list version 2.0.1 right after it came out, 10 days ago.

As soon as I explicitly told Firefox to reload the page, it came up as
2.0.1. I'm not well-versed enough in browser caching to figure out why
it happened, but I wonder if there's a cache-control headers issue.

Anyway, it's working again, and now this email thread will show up in
Google if anyone else runs into this problem. Thanks.