On 21 Aug, 2007, at 20:00, Scott Prahl wrote:

I cannot use rsync because of our firewall. How do I set things up so that I can have an svn repository of the dports files and use macports? I am using MacPorts 1.5

Ultimately, I would like to be able to 'svn up' to get the latest portfiles and then be able to use 'port install foo' as usual.

svn is a valid solution for how to sync your ports tree. However, that's only one half of selfupdate--selfupdate also pulls down the newest version of MacPorts (currently 1.5.2) and recompiles it if necessary. The error you're getting pertains to the absence of a feature that was added in 1.5.1. You can `svn co http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/ release_1_5_2/base/` and then do the regular Unix dance of `./ configure && make && sudo make install` to upgrade to 1.5.2. It may also be possible to automate this by linking in "base" in the same way as you did "ports", but I haven't done it myself and would rather someone with experience describe that process. Chris

On Aug 21, 2007, at 19:00, Scott Prahl wrote:

I cannot use rsync because of our firewall. How do I set things up so that I can have an svn repository of the dports files and use macports? I am using MacPorts 1.5

Ultimately, I would like to be able to 'svn up' to get the latest portfiles and then be able to use 'port install foo' as usual.

Sure, that works. I do that. You don't need to "svn up" either; "port sync" will work just fine, even if your ports tree is a Subversion working copy. You may need the below edit to sources.conf for that to work:

I got things working somewhat. I downloaded the portfiles using

svn co http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/ dports

and then sym-linked dports to

/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports

Ok. You could also have edited the location of your ports tree in / opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf. For example, I commented out the line beginning with "rsync://" and added a line pointing to my working copy. (In my case, "file:///Users/rschmidt/macports/dports")

I can now type

port list

and things work. Installing fails. For example,

sudo port install ghostscript

gives

Error: Unable to execute port: invalid command name "destroot.violate_mtree"

You need to update MacPorts base. We're currently at 1.5.2. However, "port selfupdate" requires rsync, so you won't be able to use that. But you can download the MacPorts 1.5.2 source code from the repository: http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_1_5_2/base/ And build it yourself with "./configure", "make" and "sudo make install"