It seems that selfupdate got broken: prunille:~> sudo port -d selfupdate DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. Synchronizing from file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports DEBUG: /opt/local/bin/svn update --non-interactive "/Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports" It shouldn't update *my* SVN working copy. It was previously updating the standard path (?) with rsync. I suppose that it takes the paths from /opt/local/etc/ports/sources.conf, which contains here: file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports file:///Users/vinc17/software/dports rsync://rsync.macports.org/dpupdate/dports But I use this for port installation only. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)