Installed macports what to do next

[james collins]

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On Aug 25, 2011, at 5:05 PM, "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:48 PM, james collins wrote:
>> 
>>> So you followed the instructions on the wiki and now 'port sync' works?
>> 
>> I followed the instructions. Just re-ran the sync command no errors. My computer returned all 0's i.e.
>> 
>> Total number of ports parsed: 0
>> Ports successfully parsed: 0
> 
> That is an indication that there's a problem.
> 
> Most likely, you did not correctly update your macports/sources.conf file (I would even guess that you probably are missing a / after file:, there should be 3 as per the wiki).
> 
> The output from `port -d sync` might help determine what is going wrong.
> 
>> Here is what I got from terminal:
>> 
>> sudo port -v selfupdate 
>> 
>> ----> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/clientserver.c(105)
>> [receiver=2.6.9]
>> shell command "/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs" returned error 10
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: shell command failed (see log for details)
> 
> As expected, that looks like a firewall or something is blocking your access.
> 
>> I have used the search command like
>> 
>> Port search recoll with no luck
> 
> because as per the truncated output from your port sync, macports thinks there are 0 ports.
> 
> The output should look something like:
> 
> % sudo port -d sync
> DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)
> Synchronizing local ports tree from file:///path/to/where/you/put/your/macports/dports
> DEBUG: /opt/local/bin/svn update --non-interactive /path/to/where/you/put/your/macports/dports
> DEBUG: changing euid/egid - current euid: 0 - current egid: 0
> At revision 83095.
> Creating port index in /path/to/where/you/put/your/macports/dports
> 
> Total number of ports parsed:    0 
> Ports successfully parsed:    0 
> Ports failed:            0 
> Up-to-date ports skipped:    12143
> 
> and your sources.conf should have a line that matches:
> 
> % grep dports /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
> file:///path/to/where/you/put/your/macports/dports [default]

I added 

file///opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/ [default]

To sources.conf  that is what the wiki said

what does the above

%grep dports 

Mean?
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