"not owner" when installing readline as non-root

[Joshua Root]

On 2009-12-15 14:58 , Kevin Reid wrote:
> On Oct 15, 2009, at 12:37, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20896
>> ...
>> You could apply the patch I attached to that ticket, and rebuild
>> MacPorts.
> 
> I'm having what looks like this same problem, after having just
> selfupdated MacPorts.
> 
> 
> bash-3.2$ port upgrade readline
...
> --->  Applying patches to readline
> Error: Target org.macports.patch returned: could not set group for file
> "/Stuff/ports/var/macports/build/_Stuff_ports_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_readline/work/readline-6.0/support/shobj-conf":
> not owner
> Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
> bash-3.2$ locate portutil.tcl
> 
> 
> I tried applying your patch, but it didn't apply cleanly and the code
> looks different (there is no "file copy -force" in
> src/port1.0/portutil.tcl).
> 
> Any updated recommendations?

Ignore the patches attached to the ticket. Comment 15 links to a change
in trunk which may fix the problem, but nobody affected by it has yet
tested and confirmed or denied this.

- Josh