port selfupdate fails

[Peter B. West]

On 23/12/2009, at 12:57 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Dec 22, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Peter B. West wrote:
>> lydia:Downloads pbw$ port selfupdate
>> --->  Updating the ports tree
>> Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#selfupdatefails


Had a look at that. Tried the
 sudo port -d selfupdate
and it worked.

I followed the instructions at the end of the output:

MacPorts base version 1.8.1 downloaded.
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
DEBUG: Setting MacPorts sources ownership to root

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated
lydia:local pbw$ sudo port upgrade outdated
Error: Unable to open port: can't read "build.cmd": Failed to locate 'make' in path: '/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' or at its MacPorts configuration time location, did you move it?
lydia:local pbw$ which make
lydia:local pbw$ echo $PATH
/opt/subversion/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/bin:/opt/local/share/java/apache-ant/bin:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans/6.7/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/bin:/Users/pbw/bin:/Users/pbw/src/perl:/Users/pbw/src/sh:/Users/pbw/src/tcl:/Applications/oxygen:/opt/pbw/idea/bin:/opt/scala/bin:.


Make has gone away. I swear I didn't touch it. Could a normal Mac software update have affected it?

Peter