MacPorts @2.3.5 fails to selfupdate to 2.4.1 on OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Intel

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Relevant output of sudo port -v selfupdate:

--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync

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 ... done
./
skipping non-regular file "vendor/tcl"
skipping non-regular file "vendor/tcllib"
skipping non-regular file "vendor/tclx"
skipping non-regular file "vendor/thread"
vendor/
deleting config.log
deleting confdefs.h
deleting vendor/tcl/unix/
deleting vendor/tcl/

sent 28 bytes  received 180741 bytes  51648.29 bytes/sec
total size is 78708953  speedup is 435.41
MacPorts base version 2.3.5 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.4.1 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/

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 ... done

sent 33 bytes  received 844761 bytes  129968.31 bytes/sec
total size is 42401146  speedup is 50.19

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 ... done

sent 16 bytes  received 56 bytes  144.00 bytes/sec
total size is 10241608  speedup is 142244.56
--->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.4.1
Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:admin; permissions 0755

checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
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checking MacPorts version... 2.4.1
checking for sw_vers... /usr/bin/sw_vers
checking for defaults... /usr/bin/defaults
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checking Xcode version... 3.1.2
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
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checking for which tar variant to use... /usr/bin/gnutar
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checking whether pthreads work without any flags... yes
checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... -D_THREAD_SAFE
checking how to run the Objective C preprocessor... /usr/bin/cc -E
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configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
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configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
configure: Using Apple Foundation library
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checking for ports tree... /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports
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checking what permissions to use for installation directories... 755
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configure: === configuring in vendor/tcl/unix (/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base/vendor/tcl/unix)
configure: error: no configure script found in vendor/tcl/unix
Command failed: cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base && CC=/usr/bin/cc OBJC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix='/opt/local' --with-install-user='root' --with-install-group='admin' --with-directory-mode='0755' --enable-readline && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1
Exit code: 1
Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Do you have an outdated macports.conf file, either in /opt/local/etc/macports or in another one of the directories MacPorts checks, such as your or root's home directory, specifically with regard to the rsync_dir setting? See #53414.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Closing due to missing details from reporter.