Error synchronizing MacPorts sources

[beltran.maite@…]

After updating to Yosemite I have many problems running several programs. I was trying to install them again with MacPorts but:

Trying to run 'ports update'

--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done
rsync: mkstemp "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/.base.tar.UZFbxb" failed: Permission denied (13)
inflate returned -3 (3 bytes)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-45/rsync/token.c(419) [receiver=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (31 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-45/rsync/io.c(453) [generator=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
Exit code: 12
Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
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Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed 

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

"Permission denied"... what are the permissions of that directory?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Here are the permissions from my working system:

$ ls -ld /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
drwxr-xr-x  9 root  admin  306 Nov  8 14:38 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs

What do yours look like?

[beltran.maite@…]

Hi,

my permissions are like yours:

drwxr-xr-x  10 root  admin  340 Nov 12  2013 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs

In the end, I have decided to downgrade Yosemite and go back to Mavericks. My programs (specially those needing X11) work well with Maverick. Curiously, now that I'm back with Mavericks it doesn't find 'ports' ... I guess it got lost in the downgrade and I will need to re-install it.

[fred.macias@…]

It looks like you ran the command with your standard user. Don't forget to ​execute it as root:

sudo port selfupdate