`port self update` fails

Tue Mar 7 17:05:44 UTC 2017

On 2017-03-07, 8:33 AM, "Ryan Schmidt" <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

    > On Mar 7, 2017, at 09:32, Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital) <srasku at wurldtech.com> wrote:
    > 
    > I am trying to do a “selfupdate” but it’s failing.

    Has it ever worked?

It used to work.

    > Note that our company may be blocking outgoing pings so that might explain the problematic ping/traceroute results.

    Tell your company to fix that; that's broken and it will interfere with MacPorts being able to determine what server is closest to you for fastest service.

Unfortunately, that’s not going to accomplish anything.  It’s a company policy and the company has over 300k employees.  I have zero chance of influencing this.

    > I am able to get to rsync.macports.org but it re-directs to distfiles.macports.org.

    rsync.macports.org is an rsync server, not a web server, so there's no reason to access it in a web browser. If you do, it will, for historical reasons, redirect to distfiles.

    > Usually I am behind a proxy but I ran this test on our external network.
    > 
    > Is there any way I can fix this?
    > 
    > $ sudo port -d selfupdate 
    > DEBUG: Copying /Users/212434537/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/macports/release/tarballs
    > --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
    > DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
    > rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: No route to host (65)

    Consult your network administrator.

OK, thanks.    

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