Selfupdate to MacPorts 2.8.0 Throws Error 'Couldn't change permissions of the MacPorts sources'

[Chris Jones]


Hi,

Already reported. See

https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2022-October/051518.html

which includes a link to 

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/66031

Chris

> On 22 Oct 2022, at 1:09 pm, Steven Smith <steve.t.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
> I’m consistently getting this error across multiple boxes when doing a selfupdate to 2.8.0:
> 
>> Congratulations, you have successfully upgraded the MacPorts system.
>> 
>> Error: Couldn't change permissions of the MacPorts sources at /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base to root: child killed: kill signal
> 
> Another selfupdate command ignores the issue, but the ownership of base appears to be broken:
> 
>> ls -ld /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base
>> drwxr-xr-x  35 messagebus  polkitd  1120 Oct 22 07:57 /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base/
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