problem with fresh MacPorts install on 10.13

[Chris Jones]

yes, you are correct. selfupdate does indeed effectively also do a sync.

quite why you where missing the port index before running sync by hand 
is impossible to say without the detail logs from those failed runs, 
which I am sure you don't have.

Chris

On 23/08/2019 4:25 pm, Noam Bernstein via macports-users wrote:
>> On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk 
>> <mailto:jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> port sync is what fetches in updates from the main repository. If you 
>> don't run this you will never get any port updates, so you should get 
>> into the habit of doing it periodically, then running `sudo port 
>> upgrade outdated` to actually update your installed ports.
> 
> OK, that’s good to keep in mind for the future. I’m still a bit 
> surprised that a fresh install was missing such an important dependency. 
>   The installation web page for the .pkg installer doesn’t mention it, 
> and in fact implies that selfupdate does a sync automatically.  I wonder 
> if that failed for some reason, and I didn’t notice.
> 
> Noam
> 
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