Non-working non-root install
Perry Lee
perry at macports.org
Wed Sep 2 08:41:34 PDT 2009
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:25, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I am attaching a script which reproduces the problem on my system
>> (clean install of Snow Leopard), and the output I get. When you run
>> it, do you see the problem on your system as well? You need to edit
>> the user in the script. Note that it installs MacPorts in /tmp/mp and
>> downloads the MacPorts source to /tmp/macportsbase. You can edit these
>> at the top of the script too if you want.
>
> Can somebody please test what happens when they run this script on their
> system? It will not affect your current MacPorts install. The version of
> the script attached to this email is updated so that you don't need to
> enter your username manually.
I just ran the script on my system (also a clean install of Snow
Leopard). Following is the output from `$PREFIX/bin/port install zlib`:
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Computing dependencies for zlib
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Fetching zlib
---> Attempting to fetch zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 from
http://distfiles.macports.org/zlib
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Verifying checksum(s) for zlib
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Extracting zlib
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Applying patches to zlib
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Configuring zlib
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Building zlib
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Staging zlib into destroot
MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete
certain actions (eg install).
---> Installing zlib @1.2.3_2
Error: Target org.macports.install returned: could not set attributes of
"/tmp/mp/var/macports/software/zlib/1.2.3_2/tmp/mp/share/man/man3/zlib.3.gz":
permission denied
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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