On Mar 3, 2008, at 05:30, Kevin Frost wrote:

Greetings. I thought you might be interested to know that the problem described here is still present:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-January/ 008199.html

I got exactly the same error, persistently, when running the installer on a fresh Leopard on a G4 Powerbook 15" (last model made).

Running from behind a firewall and not behind a firewall both gave the same error. The network connection itself was fine, a standard residential DSL with no other problems.

About 10 minutes after the installer package failed (non-firewall) with the rsync refusal, `port -d selfupdate` appeared to work (see below).

The software is working fine now. However, I think it's a pretty major bug: I had to look in the install log to get the hint about selfupdate, and I can easily imagine people never getting that far. While you could argue that the target audience should know how to solve this problem, I do think at least some people look to MacPorts to make the whole "Unix thing" less difficult, and at the moment the installer makes it pretty difficult.

Anyhow, I still love MacPorts. Please escalate for the sake of the noobs. ;-)

cheers

-- frosty

Quoth port -d selfupdate:

kfrost@pb15 ~ $ sudo port -d selfupdate Password: DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s) Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/ release/ports/ DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync:// rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ rsync.macports.org/release/ports receiving file list ... done www/webkit-gtk/

sent 74 bytes received 314844 bytes 3297.57 bytes/sec total size is 16975633 speedup is 53.90 DEBUG: MacPorts base dir: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ rsync.macports.org/release/base DEBUG: Setting user: root

MacPorts base version 1.600 installed DEBUG: Updating using rsync receiving file list ... done

sent 73 bytes received 6685 bytes 13516.00 bytes/sec total size is 3962384 speedup is 586.32

Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600

The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated DEBUG: Setting ownership to root selfupdate done! kfrost@pb15 ~ $

I agree this should be fixed. We definitely want to make MacPorts easier to use. I'm sending this to the macports-users mailing list also so that people see again that it's still a problem in 1.6.0. I don't remember if this has already been fixed in trunk. Our release manager has been busy with other things which is why there hasn't been a new MacPorts release in awhile, though we already have many new things in trunk that should be released.