<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You will be using the mirror until you revert your changes. I would restore the default configuration so you don't get caught mistakenly thinking that '<a href="http://rsync.macports.org" class="">rsync.macports.org</a>' is down when it's your mirror that went down!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-^-rdj-^-</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 24, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Carlo Tambuatco <<a href="mailto:oraclmaster@gmail.com" class="">oraclmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Does this fix still allow port selfupdate to work once <a href="http://rsync.macports.org/" class="">rsync.macports.org</a> is up again? Or do you need to reverse the changes?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Dan Johnson <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:rdj999@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">rdj999@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Yesterday, a "port -d selfupdate" revealed that '<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/" target="_blank" class="">rsync.macports.org</a>' was down. It remained down for many hours. Despite mirroring, that's evidently an Achilles' Heel in the default configuration's mechanism. I found a way around it, and it wasn't obvious, requiring temporary modifications to both 'macports.conf' and 'sources.conf'. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Should this happen again, here's a blog entry that others may find useful in the future:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span><a href="http://rdj999.blogspot.com/2014/11/eek-macports-is-down.html" target="_blank" class="">http://rdj999.blogspot.com/2014/11/eek-macports-is-down.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note: after modifying those two files, 'port -d selfupdate' worked one time, however, one of the files required "re-fixing", because 'selfupdate' in MacPorts 2.3.3 evidently "fixes" the repository flags in 'sources.conf' to break it again. (That's also explained in the blog.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-^-rdj-^-</div></div><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">
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