Trouble upgrading DarwinPorts to MacPorts

[charles.troell@…]

I am a digital forensic examiner for the Orlando Police Department.

The system was configured several years ago but I believe that Darwinports was installed. I am not sure which version.

I have recently upgrade a MacBook Pro from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I installed the new version of Xcode. I need to upgrade the system to process two iPhones in a case we are working.

I have tried several times to upgrade to the current version of MacPorts but receive this error message:

jXXXXX-computer:~ jXXXXX$ sudo port -v selfupdate
Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports
@ERROR: Unknown module 'dpupdate'
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/main.c(1398) [receiver=2.6.9]
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync dports tree: sync failed doing rsync

I attempted to install the DMG package which instructed me to upgrade the MacPorts to 1.7.1

I attempted to do this but because I am now running Snow Leopard the older upgrades will not install do to the OS version not matching.

How can I upgrade my system.

Thank you in advance.

Charles Troell
Certified Forensic Computer Examiner
Orlando Police Department
407-246-3743

[charles.troell@…]

Cc Me!

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

Since you moved OS versions, you should follow the migration instructions (​http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration)

... since your MacPorts install is so old, though, it might be easiest to just start over (​http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.uninstalling and then install from the latest dmg (​http://www.macports.org/install.php)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Daniel beat me to it, but I was going to say:

When moving from one version of Mac OS X to another (e.g. Tiger to Snow Leopard) you must uninstall and reinstall all ports. The Migration page has more information.

Since your existing installation is so old, you would first need to upgrade to ​MacPorts 1.7.1, then upgrade to the ​current version of MacPorts. However, MacPorts 1.7.1 never ran on Snow Leopard. Therefore, you probably need to completely ​uninstall your old MacPorts / DarwinPorts and then install the ​current version.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

You could probably get the selfupdate rsync to work if you updated rsync_server/rsync_dir in macports.conf, but you'd still have to do the Migration thing afterwards due to changing OS versions. I don't think it's worth the effort to make the upgrade path smoother for really old versions.

[charles.troell@…]

That worked.

Thank you all

Charlie