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

I too had the same error. It is because the network connection is rejected. If you are using University/Company WiFi or public connection, firewall would be refusing the connection.

As you can see from the output of -dt "rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Connection refused (61)"

There are workarounds available which are provided on the macports site:

1) Using svn.

2) If svn fails too, you can try using Daily tarball.

You can test the changes by running "sudo port -d sync"

Note: If the https fails, you can replace it with http. But doing so is not recommended, as you will be fetching from insecure connection.