Re: No default port source specified in /mp/etc/macports/sources.conf

On Dec 1, 2008, at 04:20, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On another machine, on which I have multiple MacPorts installs
>> sharing a sources.conf, "[default]" appears to have been added by
>> something. Because I updated one install, and then the other said:
>>
>> $ port sync
>> Warning: /mp/etc/macports/sources.conf source 'file:///Volumes/data/
>> macports/ports [default]' specifies invalid flag 'default'
>> Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing an svn
>> update
>> port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
>> $
>
> This is just a warning, so it is not the real reason why it failed.
> Unknown flags are ignored with a warning.
>
> Please run 'port -d sync' and check svn_path in
> /Library/Tcl/macports1.0/macports_autoconf.tcl (or whatever you  
> used for
> --with-tclpackage).
>
> Most probably svn_path is set to "/usr/bin/svn" triggering the "Please
> get a newer Subversion client" message. This is #15868 [1] and  
> scheduled
> to be fixed in 1.7.1.

That's not relevant; this is on Tiger which has no /usr/bin/svn.  
We've figured the issue out and it's fixed in trunk; see my last  
message.