port selfupdate: “macPorts sources: command execution failed”

Question

I am trying to selfupdate my Macports, but I am getting the following message:

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizi         


        

Answer 1

If anybody else is having this issue and they've recently updated XCode, the root of my problem was that Command Line Tools had been omitted from the latest build.

Opening XCode and installing Command Line Tools via the XCode preference panel fixed this error being thrown by MacPorts.