Could not open Portfile

[Craig Treleaven]

> On Sep 16, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-09-16 14:20, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> I’ve hit this scenario a couple of times.  Am I doing something wrong with svn patch?
> 
> What is your umask set to? From the permissions it looks like this is
> with umask 0077.
> 
> I encountered the same problem before. svn patch does not preserve the
> permissions of the existing files. Actually this behavior is not even
> specific to svn patch, other commands such as svn revert behave the same
> way. svn creates a new temporary file with umask applied, deletes the
> existing file and moves the new file in place.
> 
> Personally, I use ACLs on my ports directory to automatically grant read
> permissions to everyone on new files. This also resolves this problem
> with svn patch for me.
> 
> chmod -R +a "group:everyone allow
> read,execute,list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit" ~/ports
> 
> It would be nice to have a better solution for this problem, but the
> actual bug is in Subversion.
> 
Thanks Rainer!  I thought maybe I was just missing a step, somewhere.  I found a ‘sudo chmod 0666’ on the affected Portfiles allowed me to go ahead.  

Craig