having trouble syncing via svn behind corporate firewall

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 18, 2013, at 21:30, Richard Cobbe wrote:

> Might I suggest that someone with write permissions update the wiki page at
> <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN> to reflect two things?

You may update the wiki yourself; you just need an account in our Trac system, which you can create yourself if you don’t already have one.

https://trac.macports.org/auth/register/


> Also, while "sudo port sync" works just fine, "sudo port selfupdate"
> doesn't, since the corporate proxy blocks rsync.  I'm assuming that this
> means I should use "sudo port sync" to update the list of packages, and
> when a new release comes out, just download the new installer from
> macports.org and install that.  Is that correct?

Yes!