Trouble with selfupdate command

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 18:14:36 PDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

> MacPorts avoids doing most things as root; instead it switches to a
> dedicated macports account for many things, reserving root for only those
> things that need it.


I should note that this user should *not* be a normal user account, such as
your login account. It should be a dedicated account for the internal use
of MacPorts.

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