MacPorts sync failed

[Behinder (behinder)]

Hello. yesterday everything was OK. Today I wanted to sync my port tree and the result is:

Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de.
Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.

Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.


receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/tarballs/base.tar" (in release) failed: No such file or directory (2)
done

sent 4 bytes  received 9 bytes  26.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-47/rsync/main.c(1400) [receiver=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: 23
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

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

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There was a similar report on IRC. The reporter noted it was working again quickly afterwards. I could not see the failure condition myself, as the tarball existed when I checked. Looks like some temporary glitch happened, maybe the mirror was updated at the same time?

$ date
Mon Oct 17 14:48:40 CEST 2016
$ rsync --no-motd 'rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/*.tar*'
-rw-r--r--     27,013,120 2016/10/17 14:01:50 base.tar
-rw-r--r--            512 2016/10/17 14:01:52 base.tar.rmd160
-rw-r--r--     64,327,680 2016/10/17 14:01:51 ports.tar
-rw-r--r--            512 2016/10/17 14:01:52 ports.tar.rmd160