selfupdate failure: rsync: [sender] change_dir "/release/tarballs" (in macports) failed: Permission denied (13)

Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolcott at gmail.com
Fri May 30 16:40:43 UTC 2025


Hi;

  Is this something I need to fix on my end?

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

sudo port -v selfupdate
Password:
--->  Checking for newer releases of MacPorts
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
 Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
 Speed
100    63  100    63    0     0    423      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
425
MacPorts base version 2.10.7 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.10.7 available.
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://
rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar.gz
Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de.
Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
rsync: [sender] change_dir "/release/tarballs" (in macports) failed:
Permission denied (13)
rsync(67318): warning: receiver has empty file list: exiting
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after
--include=/ports.tar.gz --include=/ports.tar.gz.rmd160 --exclude=* rsync://
rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/
rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/remote
Exit code: 23
Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
Error: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source failed
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe
there is a bug.
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports
tree: Synchronization of 1 source failed
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