Hello, Am 01.03.2007 um 00:23 schrieb Kim Young:

I turned my firewall completely off and tried selfupdate again.

The local firewall on your mac does not block rsync. My first guess was, that there is a firewall running on your router or whatever you use to connect to the net. Please dont forget to turn on your local fire- wall again.

This is what I got:

Shegundala:~ kimyoung$ port selfupdate Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync dports tree: sync failed doing rsync Shegundala:~ kimyoung$

Any thing else I should try?

First, try to run it verbose or better even in debug mode (port -d selfupdate) and post so output to the list. Also, if selfupdatze does not work because of rsync not working, sync should not work either. And that is an issue, that would worry me much more. Try the same with sync: port -d sync and send the output to the list. Then, tell us more about your setup: Machine type, OS Version, Developer Tools Version, macports version. If everything is set up properly and your are really living in an environment where you can not depend on standard procedures as expected by the ports system, then the next step would be, to check for other means of synchronizing your sources/ports tree. This could probably be done by subversion or one of its derived tools. I have not read the docs whether the program- mers of macports already took care to include such an option. This would be your job then. Bye, Christian