On Feb 21, 2008, at 11:45, Noah Leaman wrote:

rsync port 873 is blocked for me at work. How can I go about performing a sync and/or selfupdate manually?

sync uses rsync by default but could use subversion instead, which in our setup runs over port 80 so that won't be blocked unless your work network is silly. To use subversion instead of rsync for the sync operation, install the subversion software ("sudo port install subversion" -- or use the one already included in Leopard), then check out a working copy of the dports tree anywhere on your disk ("svn checkout http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/trunk/ dports macports-ports"). I have mine in my home directory. Then edit your /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf and comment out the line "rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/" and add a new line pointing to your working copy (e.g. "file:///Users/rschmidt/macports- ports/"). Done. Now "port sync" will update your working copy using "svn update" instead of trying to use rsync. selfupdate requires rsync. If you have no rsync, you need to build MacPorts by hand, for example by checking out the latest tag (e.g. "svn checkout http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/tags/ release_1_6_0/base/ macports-base"), going into the directory ("cd macports-base"), and configuring ("./configure --enable-readline"), making ("make") and installing it ("sudo make install") yourself. Probably a good idea to then clean the directory ("make clean"). When the next version of MacPorts is released, update your working copy by switching to the new tag ("cd macports-base && svn switch http:// svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/tags/release_1_6_1/base") and then configuring, making and installing as above.