"not owner" when installing readline as non-root

[Joshua Root]

On 2009-12-15 16:01 , Kevin Reid wrote:
> 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)?

If the fix is correct, either of those would probably work.

<http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/RunningTrunk>

- Josh