GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

[Rajdeep Bharati]

Dear Mojca,
Root privileges worked using vim. The new ports are shown in the port
search. Thanks a lot.

Rajdeep

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 3:09 PM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Dear Rajdeep,
>
> I'm not sure to what extent my suggestion helps. If the file is in
> fact locked, this won't do it, but I find it strange that this would
> ever happen (if it happened to me, I would probably reboot the
> machine). If using admin privileges won't help, maybe ask if someone
> can help you on our IRC channel?
>
> Mojca
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 09:34, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 09:12, Rajdeep Bharati wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > For testing a new Portfile in my local repository, the Macports guide
> says that I need to edit the sources.conf file. However, this file is
> locked and I'm not able to unlock it.
> >
> > Did you try with root privileges?
> >
> > I don't know what editor you used, but
> >    sudo vim /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
> > (or some other editor of your choice) should work.
> >
> > If I open the file with TextMate and modify & change it, I get a
> > prompt to enter the password and then I can save the file.
> >
> > (The best way is probably to clone the full macports-ports repository
> > and point sources.conf to your clone. Or at least that's what I do.
> > You need to make sure to generate the PortIndex in any case.)
>
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