selfupdate macports not working

macos, macports, osx-lion

Solution

Now , macports's rsync server is down see https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34298

Problem

suddently macports is not working though it use too, am getting the below error ``` Mos-MacBook-Pro:Projects mo$ sudo port -d selfupdate Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider using selfupdate ---> Updating the ports tree DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s) Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after '--exclude=/PortIndex*' rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports @ERROR: chdir failed rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/main.c(1398) [receiver=2.6.9] shell command "/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after '--exclude=/PortIndex*' rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports" returned error 5 Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync DEBUG: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed while executing "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated" Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed ``` the macports use to work few months ago, but since i upgraded to lion it stopped. I don't know if it is related to the upgrade or not, today i tried to troubleshoot it but got no where. I thought of reinstalling but i cannot find the dmg for lion on their site (broken link).

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