port selfupdate fails

[j. van den hoff]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:29:43 +0100, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at macports.org>  
wrote:

> On 10.03.2017 06:32 PM, j. van den hoff wrote:
>> before I start: yes, I have seen and read ticket #53414. I did not help:
>
> Naturally not, this change has only been deployed with 2.4.1.
>
> In order to get the selfupdate to work, either change your macports.conf  
> (make
> sure rsync_options includes the "l" flag), or sources.conf to the  
> preferred
> tarball-based rsync method (see the default file here:
> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/blob/release-2.4/doc/sources.conf  
> ) OR
> use the installer package for your platform to install 2.4.1 directly.
> Subsequent selfupdates shouldn't fail anymore.

I did the latter (use the installer package) and can confirm that the  
problem has gone away.

thanks a lot!

joerg

>
>
> Installer package:
> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/releases/download/v2.4.1/MacPorts-2.4.1-10.11-ElCapitan.pkg
>
>
>
> Mihai
>
>
>


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