selfupdate doesn't work

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Jim Goudie wrote:
>
> Selfupdate doesn't work; any advice? ...
>
> rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
> Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs

Does the following work if you run rsync from the command line?

> rsync rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/
drwxr-xr-x          4,096 2015/03/03 06:45:07 .
-rw-r--r--     29,763,932 2015/03/03 06:45:07 ports.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx             16 2015/03/03 06:32:32 tarballs
drwxr-xr-x          4,096 2015/03/03 06:01:44 base
drwxr-xr-x          4,096 2014/10/28 01:01:34 ports
drwxr-xr-x          4,096 2014/10/28 01:13:01 tarballs_current

Our sysadmin is happily blocking the port for rsync in the firewall
(being convinced that opening it would decrease the integrity of the
network). Maybe you have rsync blocked as well.

Mojca