port not installing

Tue Oct 9 08:09:12 UTC 2018

Hi,

As Ryan has been alluding to, something is not right with your 
installation, and its very hard to work out what from the information 
you are providing.

You say your OS has effectively been updated. Have you followed the 
migration instructions

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration

that are required following a major OS update ? If not try following 
them now.

Chris

On 09/10/18 04:50, M P wrote:
> No, I have not customized sources.conf
> This is a mac after a major repair with replaced motherboard. My admin 
> made a backup copy on HD and reinstalled most back from Sierra to 
> Mojave. Macports worked fine before when I installed back in 2017. There 
> are a few other ports that don't install e.g.
> 
> %sudo port install R
> 
> Error: Port R not found
> 
> 
> and some produce this odd (not in the ports tree - ?) message with warning
> 
> %sudo port install xxdiff
> 
> Password:
> 
> Warning: Skipping xxdiff (not in the ports tree)
> 
> --->Scanning binaries for linking errors
> 
> --->No broken files found.
> 
> --->No broken ports found.
> 
> 
> 
> %sudo port -d selfupdate
> 
> Password:
> 
> DEBUG: Copying 
> /Users/pagowski/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 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs>
> 
> --->Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
> 
> DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after 
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar> 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs>
> 
> 
> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
> 
> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
> 
> 
> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
> 
> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
> 
> 
> 
> receiving file list ... done
> 
> 
> sent 16 bytesreceived 55 bytes20.29 bytes/sec
> 
> total size is 85608960speedup is 1205760.00
> 
> DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after 
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar.rmd160 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar.rmd160> 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs>
> 
> 
> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
> 
> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
> 
> 
> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
> 
> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
> 
> 
> 
> receiving file list ... done
> 
> 
> sent 16 bytesreceived 62 bytes31.20 bytes/sec
> 
> total size is 512speedup is 6.56
> 
> DEBUG: successful verification with key 
> /opt/local/share/macports/macports-pubkey.pem
> 
> DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/tar -C 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp> -xf 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar>
> 
> MacPorts base version 2.5.4 installed,
> 
> DEBUG: Rebuilding and reinstalling MacPorts if needed
> 
> MacPorts base version 2.5.4 downloaded.
> 
> --->Updating the ports tree
> 
> Synchronizing local ports tree from 
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar>
> 
> DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after --include=/ports.tar 
> --include=/ports.tar.rmd160 --exclude=* 
> rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/> 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs>
> 
> 
> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
> 
> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
> 
> 
> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
> 
> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
> 
> 
> 
> receiving file list ... done
> 
> ./
> 
> ports.tar
> 
> ports.tar.rmd160
> 
> 
> sent 56412 bytesreceived 4631 bytes13565.11 bytes/sec
> 
> total size is 64588288speedup is 1058.08
> 
> DEBUG: successful verification with key 
> /opt/local/share/macports/macports-pubkey.pem
> 
> DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/tar -C 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/tmp> -xf 
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar 
> <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:30 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org 
> <mailto:ryandesign at macports.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Oct 8, 2018, at 21:26, M P wrote:
> 
>      > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:24 PM M P wrote:
> 
>      >
>      >> I removed
>      >> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org
>     <http://rsync.macports.org>
>      >>
>      >> Then still a problem with nco port:
>      >>
>      >> %sudo port -v selfupdate
>      >> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>      >>
>      >> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
>      >> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
>      >>
>      >> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
>      >> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> receiving file list ... done
>      >> base.tar
>      >> sent 38 bytes  received 15706352 bytes  229290.36 bytes/sec
>      >> total size is 85608960  speedup is 5.45
>      >>
>      >> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
>      >> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
>      >>
>      >> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
>      >> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> receiving file list ... done
>      >> base.tar.rmd160
>      >>
>      >> sent 38 bytes  received 625 bytes  265.20 bytes/sec
>      >> total size is 512  speedup is 0.77
>      >> MacPorts base version 2.5.4 installed,
>      >> MacPorts base version 2.5.4 downloaded.
>      >> --->  Updating the ports tree
>      >> Synchronizing local ports tree from
>     rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar
>     <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar>
>      >>
>      >> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
>      >> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
>      >>
>      >> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de <http://ftp.fau.de>.
>      >> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> receiving file list ... done
>      >> ./
>      >> ports.tar
>      >> ports.tar.rmd160
>      >>
>      >> sent 112 bytes  received 12370338 bytes  204470.25 bytes/sec
>      >> total size is 64589824  speedup is 5.22
>      >>
>      >> %port upgrade outdated
>      >> Nothing to upgrade.
>      >>
>      >> %sudo port install nco
>      >> Error: Port nco not found
>      >>
>      >
>      > Maybe the mirror does not have this port?
>      > %port search nco
>      > Warning: Can't open index file for source:
>     rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar
>     <http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar>
>      > Error: search for name nco failed: No index(es) found! Have you
>     synced your port definitions? Try running 'port selfupdate'.
> 
>     All mirrors have all of the port definitions; they just copy them
>     from our primary public server. Also, rsync.macports.org
>     <http://rsync.macports.org> is our primary public server, not a mirror.
> 
>     Your output still does not show the portindex being fetched or
>     generated, and I don't know why that would happen. In fact
>     selfupdate appears to be exiting entirely, before printing the
>     output that should always be printed at the end, as I showed before:
> 
>      > --->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
>      >
>      > The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports,
>     you should run
>      >   port upgrade outdated
> 
> 
>     The question is, where is it exiting? Ok, it fetched ports.tar. Did
>     it verify it? Did it extract it? Can you selfupdate again but use
>     the -d flag instead of -v to get more detailed information?
> 
> 
>     Have you customized your sources.conf file? If so, what does it contain?
> 
> 
>     Has this ever worked? If so, when, and what changed since then?
> 