rsync failure: no selfupdate possible over a proxy

[antonio.cervellino@…]

Hi, I've seen the problem already but no solution. So I'll wrap it up. I know it is not technically a bug of MacPorts. I copy the listing below just for the record.

The problem shows up on my office computer. There is a firewall (proxy) in place there. At home I get ports working beautifully. At the office, no way, it is a lot of time I try. Generally I get the apps I want by other methods; however, I'd like to use MacPorts. Because it is better than whatever else. I tried to do whatever is possible in the system preferences to disable the firewall. No way. There is only the firewall - no other applications like PeerSomething.

It seems to me that there is no way to use rsync from behind a firewall. It fails not only with ports - whatever otehr application uses rsync it does not work. cvs instead runs smooth. I believe that is because cvs relies on ssh while rsync uses lower-level security and our proxy disables it . No question of disabling the proxy - our security does not allow.

Question: is there that you know any way to use macports without rsync?

or to set some rsync options so that it may run over a safe-looking protocol like ssh, so the proxy won't kick in?

thanks for any suggestion.

$ sudo port -d selfupdate Password: DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s) Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-35.2/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9] DEBUG: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization the local ports tree failed doing rsync

while executing

"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]" Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization the local ports tree failed doing rsync $

[afb@…]

See ​http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto for alternative means like tarball or subversion

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Have you tried setting the RSYNC_PROXY environment variable? (See the rsync man page for details.) Note that if you're using 10.5 you'll probably need to edit /etc/sudoers to stop it being purged by sudo. See related ticket #13158.

[antonio.cervellino@…]

Replying to afb@…:

See ​http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto for alternative means like tarball or subversion

It works fine, thanks. I uploaded a script to do the selfupdate by the daily tarball. May I suggest a direct link for the svn method from the main help page?

Have you tried setting the RSYNC_PROXY environment variable? (See the rsync man page for details.) Note that if you're using 10.5 you'll probably need to edit /etc/sudoers to stop it being purged by sudo. See related ticket #13158.

I am now working with svn, I will try that too. Thanks.

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