Why is ${prefix}/var/macports/home not owned by the macports user?

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Feb 4, 2021, at 09:11, janosch1 at mailbox.org wrote:
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>> Am 08.01.2021 um 15:50 schrieb Ryan Schmidt:
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>> On Jan 7, 2021, at 16:26, Andrew Udvare wrote:
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>>> Sometimes the release tarball will come with the submodule source https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/9612#issuecomment-756376258 but this probably depends on the project.
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>> If a release tarball doesn't come with everything needed to build the source (i.e. with submodules included), then it's of no use to anyone. So that would be a bug to report to whoever prepared that tarball.
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> Unfortunately, for GitHub this bug seems to be the default: https://github.community/t/create-release-that-contains-submodule/1329. And they are apparently not really eager to fix that.

*Automatically-generated* GitHub tarballs ("archive" and "tarball" types, in the parlance of the github portgroup) do not contain submodules. For that reason, and others, developers may choose to *manually generate* a tarball that contains submodules and anything else necessary and upload that to the GitHub Release object ("release" type, according to github portgroup). A developer who manually creates and uploads such a tarball but fails to include submodules or other necessary files does nobody any favors. That's what I was saying. I was not referring to automatically-generated tarballs.