"not owner" when installing readline as non-root

[Kevin Reid]

On Dec 14, 2009, at 23:24, Joshua Root wrote:
>> 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.


Suppose that I need to get this working again ASAP, i.e. before the  
next release.

Assuming the change does fix the problem what would I do? Apply http://trac.macports.org/changeset/59597 
  to the code I have now? Switch to trunk (how)?

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>