MacPorts 2.1.0 has been released

Phil Dobbin phildobbin at gmail.com
Tue May 15 10:04:56 PDT 2012


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On 15/05/2012 17:54, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> I've just upgraded via selfupdate on 10.6.8 & got a message about
>> Tcl's executable bit being set:
>> 
>> `MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.1.0 
>> Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:admin;
>> permissions 0755; Tcl-Package in /Library/Tcl`
>> 
>> upon doing a `ls -als` the OS's whole Tcl directory is 755.
>> 
>> Not being that au fait with OS X's Tcl (except that when I try to
>> use it to get any kind of gui with Perl, it never works), I'm not
>> sure whether this is a security matter or not.
>> 
>> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Directories must be also be executable, otherwise you can't look
> the things inside them.

Makes sense (& the fact the whole of /Library is set executable). I
just wondered why it was pointed it out in the message & Tcl was
mentioned explicitly.

Cheers,

  Phil...

- -- 
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Though it be not written down,
yet forget not that I am an ass.

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