port not installing

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 13, 2018, at 19:50, M P wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 11:23 PM Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Ok, so it's the extraction of the tarball that's failing.

> Yes, all is as expected.

Are you able to extract the tarball manually? For example...

cd /tmp
/usr/bin/tar xf /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar
ls ports