Really strange permissions errors

[René J.V. Bertin]

Hello!

I'm trying to understand a weird permissions related error that a user of one of my custom ports is getting and I cannot yet reproduce.

In a nutshell: this port uses an automatically generated subport (a "devport") for which I create the destroot as part of the main port's post-destroot. That's essentially a file move operation but of course the devport workdir has to exist. I haven't yet figured out how to create that directory manually so I use `system "port -n -vd fetch $devport"` to take care of that. I have tested about all possible scenarios I could think of on my end, but this user is getting the error below that cannot explain.

`sudo port destroot acl` means that the post-destroot stage is executed as root; indeed I already fixed a previous error in that same github ticket by deleting the "offending" file preventively in the post-destroot. If the fetch phase is de-escalated to and executed as $macports_user then this should apply to both the main and the devport, which means that (in this case) /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_site-ports_sysutils_acl should be owned by $macports_user too.

I'm aware that I'm not running the latest "base" version yet but I haven't seen any changes to the code that could explain these symptoms ... are we maybe dealing with some of the magic Apple sandboxing on their more recent OS versions, here? It's either that or I'm overlooking something really (too) obvious ...

Maybe just deconstruct the main port's ${workdir} to build my the devport's workdir with my own code?

Thanks,
R.

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Date: Friday January 19 2024
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Subject: Re: [RJVB/macstrop] acl: destroot fails (Issue #96)


ran these after the commit appeared:
`sudo port clean acl acl-dev
sudo port -n destroot acl`

and now it fails with:
`:info:destroot DEBUG: can't create directory "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_site-ports_sysutils_acl/acl-dev": not owner
:info:destroot     while executing
:info:destroot "file mkdir $workpath/.home"
:info:destroot     (procedure "open_statefile" line 7)
:info:destroot     invoked from within
:info:destroot "open_statefile"
:info:destroot     (procedure "check_variants" line 28)
:info:destroot     invoked from within
:info:destroot "check_variants fetch"
:info:destroot     invoked from within
:info:destroot "$workername eval "check_variants $target"" 
:info:destroot     (procedure "mportexec" line 7) 
:info:destroot     invoked from within
:info:destroot "mportexec $workername $target"
:info:destroot Error: Unable to execute port: can't create directory "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_site-ports_sysutils_acl/acl-dev": not owner
:info:destroot Command failed: port -nok -vd fetch acl-dev 
:info:destroot Exit code: 1`


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