installing an older port

[Gideon Simpson]

The following still doesn’t work:

gideon at gs_air:swig$ chmod o+x ~
gideon at gs_air:swig$ sudo port install
Error: Unable to execute port: Could not open file: /Users/gideon/Downloads/ports/swig/Portfile

-gideon

> On Sep 4, 2015, at 10:17 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Gideon Simpson <gideon.simpson at gmail.com <mailto:gideon.simpson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> gideon at gs_air:swig$ sudo port install
> Password:
> Error: Unable to execute port: Could not open file: /Users/gideon/Downloads/ports/swig/Portfile
> 
> Make sure that the user "macports" can get to that directory. This usually means "chmod o+x ~" to grant search (only) privilege so that it can traverse ~ to get to the swig subdirectory. (If you are feeling paranoid, you can use "chmod -e" to limit that access to the "macports" user instead of all users; see `man 1 chmod` for how OS X ACLs work.) Likewise ensure that the swig directory grants access to the "macports" user and that that user can read the Portfile and patch.
> 
> MacPorts does not perform all operations as root, but drops to the unprivileged "macports" user for most things.
> 
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