rsync server problems (was: Re: Problem installing macports)

[Bill Christensen]

On 10/12/15 6:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2015, at 6:24 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing similar on several machines when trying to selfupdate MacPorts:
>>
>>> sudo port -d -v selfupdate
>> DEBUG: Copying /Users/billc/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences
>> DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> receiving file list ... done
>>
>> sent 36 bytes  received 69 bytes  4.29 bytes/sec
>> total size is 27013120  speedup is 257267.81
>> receiving file list ... done
>>
>> sent 36 bytes  received 76 bytes  4.57 bytes/sec
>> total size is 512  speedup is 4.57
>> DEBUG: failed verification with key /opt/local/share/macports/macports-pubkey.pem
>> DEBUG: openssl output: Verification Failure
>> child process exited abnormally
>> DEBUG: Failed to verify signature for MacPorts source!
>>     while executing
>> "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated"
>> Error: Failed to verify signature for MacPorts source!
>> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>>     http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Failed to verify signature for MacPorts source!
>> _______________________________________________
> That's a problem verifying the signature of MacPorts base source when doing a selfupdate. That's reported here:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49233
>
> It likely has to do with the rsync server's current problems.
>
> That's different to Sepideh Razavi's problem which is a failure to verify a port archive's signature. Port archives don't have anything to do with rsync so this will have a different reason, and we need to see the debug output from his system to determine what it is.
>
Ok.

Tried the suggested "sudo port sync" from that ticket, it failed on 
rsync also:

$ sudo port sync
Password:
--->  Updating the ports tree
Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed