Macports how to update?

Question

macOS

Can't update macports Resources containing data about packages are unavailable.
Distfiles.macports.org is not available Accordingly, the
sources are not available
https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2...
Read here
samkhan13.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/make-macports-w..
That you can download the list of packages here
www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz
but it is also not available .

--->  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 /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-45/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [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: 10
Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed

--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz
Warning: Cannot check if http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz was updated, (Timeout was reached)
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0   320    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:29 --:--:--     0Error: Fetching http://www.macports.org/files/ports.tar.gz failed (Connection timed out after 30383 milliseconds)
DEBUG: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
    while executing
"mportsync [array get global_options]"
port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed

They were not banned in Google, most of the links lead to
https://trac.macports.org
which is also not available in turn.
The situation has been observed for several days.
PS: Yes, I heard about homebrew.

Answer 1

Apparently they have some problems with the main servers now. I advise you to go to webarhive.org , peep the list of their mirrors. After that, you need to backup macports.conf (just in case) and fix rsync_server and rsync_dir in ${prefix}/etc/macports/macports.conf.
Well, yes, I think it makes sense to switch to homebrew, which for every sneeze does not require the use of sudo.

Answer 2

I tried to update - everything also got up. Although the day before yesterday I updated the ports and everything was ok. Try later, they seem to be having problems with the server

Answer 3

definitely worth using brew in 2014. MacPorts is disgustingly pulling dependencies and requiring root permissions, which is disgusting.