I have MacPorts 1.4.2 on OSX 10.4.10 Whenever I've done a port sync recently (and I do it most days), I seem to be downloading the whole heirarchy every time, and none of my ports are outdated when I do a port outdated. I used to just get a listing of the ports that had changed when I did a sudo port -d selfupdate, I can't believe that everything is updated every day. Maybe it is subtly changing every day, but it just seems to be the same long list every day ... For instance Last login: Thu Jul 5 00:13:06 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! powerbook:~ user$ sudo port -d selfupdate Password: DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. DEBUG: Synchronizing dports tree(s) Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done ./ aqua/ aqua/Affiche/ aqua/AppKiDo/ aqua/AquaLess/ aqua/ArpSpyX/ aqua/AssignmentTrackerX/ aqua/BigSQL/ aqua/BigSQL/files/ ... and so on ... zope/zope-zphotoslides/files/ zope/zope-zsyncer/ PortIndex aqua/Growl/files/patch-Growl.xcodeproj__project.pbxproj.i386 aqua/Growl/files/patch-Growl.xcodeproj__project.pbxproj.powerpc aqua/Growl/files/patch-Makefile databases/mysql5/Portfile databases/sqlite3/Portfile databases/sqlite3/files/patch-Makefile.in devel/dialog/Portfile ... and so on ... textproc/libmrss/Portfile textproc/libnxml/Portfile deleting textproc/libmrss/files/patch-src-mrss_parser.c deleting directory textproc/libmrss/files sent 9951 bytes received 287107 bytes 13202.58 bytes/sec total size is 14699706 speedup is 49.48 DEBUG: MacPorts base dir: /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/base DEBUG: Setting user: root DarwinPorts base version 1.442 installed DEBUG: Updating using rsync receiving file list ... done ./ Mk/ config/ doc/ doc/exampleport/ portmgr/ portmgr/bots/ portmgr/dmg/ src/ src/cflib1.0/ src/darwinports1.0/ src/darwintracelib1.0/ src/package1.0/ src/pextlib1.0/ src/pextlib1.0/tests/ src/port/ src/port1.0/ src/port1.0/resources/ src/port1.0/resources/fetch/ src/port1.0/resources/group/ src/port1.0/resources/package/ src/port1.0/tests/ src/portindex/ src/programs/ src/programs/daemondo/ src/registry1.0/ tests/ tests/test/ tests/test/checksums-1/ tests/test/cvs-and-patchsites/ tests/test/dependencies-a/ tests/test/dependencies-b/ tests/test/dependencies-c/ tests/test/envvariables/ tests/test/site-tags/ tests/test/trace/ tests/test/universal/ tests/test/universal-2/ tests/test/xcodeversion/ sent 77 bytes received 4957 bytes 2013.60 bytes/sec total size is 2093103 speedup is 415.79 Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.442 The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated DEBUG: Setting ownership to root selfupdate done!