Macports fails under Sierra?

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Sep 25, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> Upgraded recently to 10.12 Sierra, and "port upgrade" now fails:
> 
>    Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
>    Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
> 
> 
>    receiving file list ... done
>    rsync: mkstemp "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/.base.tar.sH7E8E" failed: Permission denied (13)
>    inflate returned -3 (19 bytes)
>    rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-51/rsync/token.c(419) [receiver=2.6.9]
>    rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (31 bytes received so far) [generator]
>    rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-51/rsync/io.c(453) [generator=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 Exit code: 12
>    Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
>    To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>        http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
>    Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
> 
> Yet the directory exists, and is certainly writable by root:
> 
>    ls -ld /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
> 
>    drwxr-xr-x  5 root  admin  170 Sep 26 06:12 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
> 
> Qué?


This doesn't look specific to Sierra, nor does it look like this is the result of running "port upgrade"; it looks like the result of running "port selfupdate". Are you certain you ran it with "sudo"? "sudo port selfupdate"?