git sync

[John Hoyt]

Hi James,

I think you want to use "sudo port -v sync" (the -v before sync).

This will take a LONG time the first time you pull down the git repo.  As
long as you see ports/subports being added and the terminal scrolling
you're fine.

Regards,
John

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 2:44 AM James <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:

> I've been building mythtv from John Hoyt's script (it uses macports
> extensively).
> I have made a successful build but there we minor isssues
>
> on redoing I forgot to sync with git, with rsync update the build failed
> with a missing file. I followed
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithGit
> uninstalled all ports
> $ sudo port -fp uninstall installed
>
> and ...
>
> ws102:sources jam$ ls -l
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 jam   admin  64 25 Dec 23:03 github.com
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  96 23 Dec 22:57 rsync.macports.org
> ws102:sources jam$ git clone
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git
> github.com/macports/macports-ports/
> Cloning into 'github.com/macports/macports-ports'...
> remote: Enumerating objects: 1375190, done.
> remote: Counting objects: 100% (278/278), done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (143/143), done.
> remote: Total 1375190 (delta 115), reused 251 (delta 104), pack-reused
> 1374912
> Receiving objects: 100% (1375190/1375190), 326.20 MiB | 2.12 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (788236/788236), done.
> Updating files: 100% (24358/24358), done.
> ws102:sources jam$ sudo port sync -v
> Password:
> --->  Updating the ports tree
>
> Now waits for ever
>
> Can anybody guide me please
> James
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