<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I installed the update to MacPorts 2.8.0 earlier today on a Mac Mini A1 running Monterey 12.6.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">During the install the following error was reported:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">NFO: Syncing port data and updating port-base ...</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Password:</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">MacPorts base version 2.7.2 installed,</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">MacPorts base version 2.8.0 downloaded.</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">---> Updating the ports tree</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">---> MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.8.0</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:wheel; permissions 0755</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Error: Couldn't change permissions of the MacPorts sources at /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base" class="">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base</a> to root: child killed: kill signal</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Please run `port -v selfupdate' for details.</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't change permissions of the MacPorts sources at /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base" class="">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base</a> to root: child killed: kill signal</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ERROR: Self update failed with exit code: 1</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ERROR: MacPorts sync failed</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></blockquote><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span></div></div>I re-ran the self update with the ‘-v’ option but no error was reported.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I checked the folder permissions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ls -la /opt/local/var/macports/sources/<a href="http://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs" class="">rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs</a> </span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">total 226484</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 320 Oct 20 11:50 .</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Nov 29 2020 ..</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 18098189 Oct 20 08:34 PortIndex</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Oct 20 08:56 PortIndex.rmd160</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwxr-xr-x 30 root postgres 960 Oct 20 07:02 base</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 113716224 Oct 20 07:45 base.tar</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Oct 20 07:45 base.tar.rmd160</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwxr-xr-x 62 root postgres 1984 Oct 20 11:50 ports</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 100087808 Oct 20 08:56 ports.tar</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Oct 20 08:56 ports.tar.rmd160</span></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class="">Group II:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">drwxr-xr-x 30 0 505 960 Oct 20 07:02 base</span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">drwxr-xr-x 62 0 505 1984 Oct 20 11:50 ports</div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></blockquote><div class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The ‘postgres’ group is listed via dscl.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was not expecting to see the group set to ‘postgres’ on these folders. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Could you please advise if I should raise one or more tickets for this, and could you confirm what permissions I should expect to find on these folders.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Olaf</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div>
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