PSA: MacPorts rsync server currently down

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Just as heads up, if you go to use a default MacPorts install right now (ie., port selfupdate) it'll fail with a "Error synchronizing MacPorts sources" message. It's not anything on your side, it's just that the rsync/distfiles server is currently down and the primary admin is away this week. The emergency admin has been notified so it'll probably be back up again some time today (they're on PST, so it's only 0830 right now). Hopefully this helps prevent people from wasting time hunting through logs or trying to diagnose a problem on their end.

If you need MacPorts ASAP, the SVN server is just fine. Anything post-10.5 should have svn installed by default, so you can just change MacPorts to sync using Subversion for an immediate solution.
The Seattle mirror, at, still works.
macports seemed like a good idea but a single admin being away and affecting the entire system seems rather silly.
Everything is back up and working btw. Although damn it, libusb is still on 1.0.8, and now their server seems to be down too :\.
jmck wrote:
macports seemed like a good idea

Seemed? It's great and overall is extremely reliable.

Hello, welcome to every small project ever. Most do not have entire dedicated IT teams, they've got some guy, who occasionally needs vacation or gets sick. When that happens, an alternate emergency admin is arranged for, which was the case here. Bad luck can always strike at a bad moment, but this was hardly some mission critical system, and the result was less then a day of down time for the default sync method while there was also a redundant workaround that could be immediately implemented. If that's enough for you to go ahead and manage compiling everything yourself when it's not required, well have fun.
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