port selfupdate fails

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Andrew Long wrote:
> 
> Can someone please tell me where to look for the log, so I can have a try at self-diagnosing, or perhaps tell me where to look for what the *real* problem is?

I'm not sure where the log is (someone else probably knows and can tell you), but you can run selfupdate with the verbose (or debug) mode to see what is going on.

I usually run like this:

sudo port -dv selfupdate

(although I think -d implies -v now)

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