Non-working non-root install

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Sat Sep 5 01:33:10 PDT 2009


On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:10:52AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said:
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 10:41, Perry Lee wrote:
> 
> >Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >> 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`:
> [snip]
> >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
> 
> Ok, so Perry sees the same issue I did. Bryan, can you try my script
> on your system and see if you see it too?

No problems here (other than excessive "MacPorts running without
privileges..." messages).  I did update the script for 10.5 use, but
otherwise no changes.  Perhaps some permissions changes on 10.6?

Bryan



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