Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?

[guitman423@…]

After I install macports on my OS X 10.5.8 Server, I can not update macports or install any packages. I am behind a firewall that restricts rsync, so I have modified my sources.conf file to use the tarball option instead. The tarball download works, but I received the message about "source indexes" and I can not proceed.

"sudo port -d selfupdate" yields:

Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
--->  Updating the ports tree
DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)
Synchronizing local ports tree from http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz
No updates for http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz
DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
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: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: shell command "/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/base/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base" returned error 10
Command output: 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]

    while executing
"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: shell command "/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/base/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base" returned error 10
Command output: 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]