Mac OS X - macports - Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?

Question

I'm trying to setup an Android build environment for Android. I'm following these instructions.

However, after the installation of MacPorts I'm not able to install the environment.

Following the instructions I launched this command:

sudo port install gmake libsdl git-core gnupg

and I received this message:

Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
Error: Port gmake not found

Now, I tried the selfupdate command but the connection timed-out. I tried the different solutions that I found in the MacPort FAQ but I'm not able to connect to SVN. The connection works fine, if I ping a website from the terminal there is no problem.

Answer 1

Perhaps this is a firewall issue? If you have a proxy server, you might try setting up rsync to work with it. For example:

export RSYNC_PROXY=myproxy.domain.com:80
sudo -E port selfupdate

The -E option preserves the user environment of the sudo-ing user.

Hope this helps -- it worked for me, anyway.

Answer 2

Try sudo port -d sync.

It uses svn whereas selfupdate uses rsync. I got it from this thread: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-July/004725.html