selfupdate doesnt work

[fabiograetz@…]

Dear all,

selfupdate doesn't work and i can't figure out why! when running selfupdate -d i get the following

DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done
rsync: mkstemp "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/.base.tar.HDsUpz" failed: Permission denied (13)
inflate returned -3 (3 bytes)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/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-42/rsync/io.c(452) [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
DEBUG: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
    while executing
"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated"
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

I hope someone can help me :)

Thx

F

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to fabiograetz@…:

rsync: mkstemp "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/.base.tar.HDsUpz" failed: Permission denied (13)
inflate returned -3 (3 bytes)

Are you running port selfupdate using sudo? If not, try that.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Any update on this?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

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