Non-working non-root install

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:21:53AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said:
> 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.

This should be fixed in r58093 (trunk) and r58094 (1.8 branch) now; I wasn't
seeing it initially as it only appears to happen on 10.6 but was running
10.5 at the time.

The basic problem is that Tcl doesn't like to set a permission of 0444 when
also using '-creator {}' when you aren't root.  The way the code was
initially working was that all attributes that 'file attributes' returns
were being set on the newly-installed file, as can be seen when you try it:

$ tclsh
% file attributes /mach_kernel
-group wheel -owner root -permissions 00644 -readonly 0 -creator {} -type {} -hidden 1 -rsrclength 0

For man pages, the permission mode is 0444, combined with not being root and
using that '-creator {}', it fails:

$ touch /tmp/foo
$ tclsh
% file attributes /tmp/foo -permissions 0444 -creator {}
could not set attributes of "/tmp/foo": permission denied

However, 0644 is fine, or using 0444 without creator is also fine.  The code
now just specifically sets the permissions, owner, and group, ignoring the
other bits.

Bryan