installation on nfs disk

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:46, Benoist Laurent <benoist at ibpc.fr> wrote:

> ./configure --prefix=/ibpc/osx/lbt/macport/2.0.4/SL --enable-readline
> --with-install-user=`id -un` --with-install-group=`id -gn`
> --with-tcl-package=/ibpc/osx/lbt/macport/2.0.4/SL/share/macports/Tcl
>
> And here is the error message I get.
>
> Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
> port registry doesn't exist at
> "/ibpc/osx/lbt/macport/2.0.4/SL/var/macports/registry/registry.db" and
> couldn't write to this location
>
> I'm supprised because I specify that I should have all the permissions in
> the configure (--with-install-user and --with-install-group).
>

MacPorts requires root permissions by default.  The root user is normally
converted to "nobody" over NFS, because root is a locally privileged
account, not a network-wide superuser account.  You could change NFS export
options to suppress that (not recommended) or you could configure MacPorts
to not use root privileges.

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