port selfupdate failling

[Uli Wienands]

Thanks Ryan, that did it.
To Rainer, who wondered how come 501 does not exist: I bought this  
machine as a demo model so it had an account. Of course I created my  
own, and then deleted the original one. Bingo, 501 is gone!

Hasn't created any problem so far in >3 years (and I am quite sure my  
original install of MacPorts was for this same configuration).

Anyway, i am in business, thanks.

Mac Dude

On Oct 10, 2010, at 1:11 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Oct 9, 2010, at 16:00, Uli Wienands wrote:
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>> I have been trying to update my MacPorts installation by running  
>> "sudo port -d selfupdate". It fails with the following message:
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>> ===> making install in doc
>> /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local
>> /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local/etc/macports
>> cat prefix.mtree | /usr/sbin/mtree -U -e -p /opt/local > /dev/null
>> mtree: line 6: unknown group 501
>> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
>> make: *** [install] Error 1
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> I am uncertain why selfupdate is failing for you, but you could  
> work around this for now by installing MacPorts 1.9.1 from the disk  
> image available on the MacPorts web site. This will not affect your  
> installed ports.
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