chmod error on new shell

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 17, 2009, at 16:31, TjL wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2009, at 14:15, TjL wrote:
>>
>>> I installed the newest version to my Dropbox using the source  
>>> version,
>>> and it seems to work fine, but whenever I open a new shell I now  
>>> get 4
>>> error messages:

[snip]

>> I'm not sure why those errors are happening. I also don't use zsh. By
>> "Dropbox" I assume you mean that the folder /Users/luomat/Dropbox  
>> is shared
>> as write-only via file sharing so that others can send you files  
>> over the
>> network? If so, why would you install MacPorts inside such a folder?
>
> Nope, that's not the kind of "dropbox" I mean.
>
> My Dropbox as in http://www.getdropbox.com/ as in "I can install
> MacPorts on one of my Macs and have it automatically sync to all of my
> other Macs and not have to worry about having different versions
> installed" :-)

Oh. Well you may be the first person to have tried that, so I guess  
now we know it doesn't work so well. :) In any case, it would only  
work at all if all your machines have the same version of Mac OS X and  
Xcode and have the same processor.


> It has caused some permissions problems. For some reason I had to do
> 'sudo make install' instead of 'make install" and then I ended up with
> a bunch of files owned by root.


There are some permissions issues in MacPorts 1.8.0 when you don't  
install as root. Hopefully we'll figure out how to fix those soon.


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