Port selfupdate is NOT working on macOS Catalina version 10.15.7

[FCruz2]

Can someone please help with this issue ? When I run "sudo port -d selfupdate" I get a list of errors according to :

sudo port -d selfupdate

DEBUG: Copying /Users/fjalcruz/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences
DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
DEBUG: system: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-54.120.1/rsync/clientserver.c(106) [receiver=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
Exit code: 10
DEBUG: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
    while executing
"error "Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: $eMessage""
    invoked from within
"try -pass_signal {
        system "$rsync_path $rsync_options [macports::shellescape rsync://${rsync_server}/$rsync_dir] [macports::shellescape $mp_so..."
    (procedure "selfupdate::main" line 30)
    invoked from within
"selfupdate::main {options_global_order {} options_selfupdate_order {}} base_updated"
    ("uplevel" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"uplevel [list selfupdate::main $optionslist $updatestatusvar]"
    (procedure "macports::selfupdate" line 2)
    invoked from within
"macports::selfupdate [array get options] base_updated"
Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there is a bug.
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

See wiki:FAQ#selfupdatefails

[FCruz2]

Dear Joshua Root

I followed your (Wiki's) suggestion of "You can sync your port tree using Git" (​https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithGit), and, in the end, after I run the final step "Step 3: " everything goes well:

sudo port -v sync

---> Updating the ports tree Synchronizing local ports tree from ​file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/github.com/macports/macports-ports/ From ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports

3c87f3a4d2b..b2c7723061c master -> origin/master

First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... Fast-forwarded master to b2c7723061c73bbb516c10b43a2e62482a5cc1be. Creating port index in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/github.com/macports/macports-ports Adding port devel/minizinc Adding port graphics/babl Adding port lang/py-htmldocs Adding subport py27-htmldocs Adding subport py37-htmldocs Adding subport py38-htmldocs Adding subport py39-htmldocs Adding subport py310-htmldocs Adding subport py311-htmldocs Adding port lang/vala Adding port net/trurl Adding port python/py-dicom Adding subport py27-dicom Adding port python/py-tornado Adding subport py27-tornado Adding subport py35-tornado Adding subport py36-tornado Adding subport py37-tornado Adding subport py38-tornado Adding subport py39-tornado Adding subport py310-tornado Adding subport py311-tornado Adding port sysutils/fluent-bit Adding port sysutils/pv

Total number of ports parsed: 24 Ports successfully parsed: 24 Ports failed: 0 Up-to-date ports skipped: 33452

HOWEVER, when I try to update Macports I get another ERROR message as:

sudo port -v selfupdate

---> 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 /AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-54.120.1/rsync/clientserver.c(106) [receiver=2.6.9] Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after --include=/base.tar --include=/base.tar.rmd160 --exclude=* rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs Exit code: 10 Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed Error: Follow ​https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe there is a bug. Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

That's right. You can tell MacPorts to use a method other than rsync for sudo port sync, but rsync is the only available method for the part of sudo port selfupdate that updates MacPorts base. Therefore, if you cannot use rsync, you can't use sudo port selfupdate. You'll have to manually install new MacPorts base releases when they become available, such as by downloading the installer from our web site and running it.

The FAQ entry doesn't seem to point this out; it should probably be added. Anyone can edit the wiki.