can't upgrade py27-zmq

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 12:43:47 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Comer Duncan <comer.duncan at gmail.com>wrote:

> comermacpro:site-packages comerduncan$ cd
> python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg-info/
> comermacpro:python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg-info comerduncan$ ls
> total 48
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  970 Mar 27 18:21 PKG-INFO
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  563 Mar 27 18:21 SOURCES.txt
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    1 Mar 27 18:21 dependency_links.txt
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    3 Mar 27 18:21 requires.txt
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    9 Mar 27 18:21 top_level.txt
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    1 Nov  1 04:29 not-zip-safe
> comermacpro:python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg-info comerduncan$ cat
> top_level.txt
> cat: top_level.txt: Permission denied
> comermacpro:python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg-info comerduncan$ sudo cat
> top_level.txt
> Password:
> dateutil
>
> So, how come root rw is not enough for sudo??  If that is not the likely
> thing, then what might I do next?
>

1. It needs to be readable by everyone, not just root.
2. MacPorts does not do actual build operations as root, but as an
unprivileged user, for sandboxing reasons.

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