Can not remove the new MacPorts Mojave package

Vincent Habchi vince at macports.org
Fri Nov 9 15:05:34 UTC 2018


On 9 Nov 2018, at 11:31, Dr M J Carter <Martin.Carter at physics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 01:25:28PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>> On 03/10/18 13:16, S. L. Garwood via macports-users wrote:
>>> I installed the new Macports bundle mentioned in Josha Root’s email.
>>> Install went fine, but now it will not uninstall — doing the “rm”
>>> commands in /opt/local gets a series of errors
>>> 
>>> rm: /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences: Operation not
>>> permitted
>>> rm: /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library: Operation not permitted
>>> rm: /opt/local/var/macports/home: Operation not permitted
>>> rm: /opt/local/var/macports: Directory not empty
>>> rm: /opt/local/var: Directory not empty
>>> rm: /opt/local: Directory not empty

Did you check the script was executed with root privilege? Also what files are left in /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences? Any hard link to any other file that could be protected by a sandbox mechanism?

Vincent




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