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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