Problem installing macports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Sepideh Razavi wrote:
>> So I cleaned all the ports and uninstalled macports, then built again from the source. Again run into signature verification failure step but this time even at the self update step (where I had no issues before):
> 
> I believe that was cited as a workaround, since reinstalling MacPorts does the base update step that is failing. For now, do "sudo port sync" to update just the ports.

"sudo port sync" will not update your ports correctly, if you are using the rsync server (which MacPorts users do by default, unless they changed it), because the rsync server is broken and needs to be repaired by the system administrator.