<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="">Yesterday, a "port -d selfupdate" revealed that '<a href="http://rsync.macports.org" 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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://rdj999.blogspot.com/2014/11/eek-macports-is-down.html" 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></body></html>