how to upgrade MacPorts behind proxy?

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Sun May 25 05:03:51 PDT 2014


Hi,

> What's the best way to upgrade to MacPorts 2.3.0 on a computer that's
> behind a proxy?  I'm currently running 2.2.1.

Install from the .pkg file.

> Will the fact that the installer itself tries to run "port selfupdate"
> cause problems when that fails because of the proxy?

The rsync download for the base code will fail, but that won't abort the
selfupdate. The port tree sync will use your configured source, i.e. svn,
which will succeed. You shouldn't have any problems.

HTH,
-- 
Clemens Lang


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