Permissions issue detected on the tarballs/base file during upgrade to MacPorts 2.8.0

[Olaf Sulla]

Hello all,


I installed the update to MacPorts 2.8.0 earlier today on a Mac Mini A1 running Monterey 12.6.

During the install the following error was reported:

NFO: Syncing port data and updating port-base ...
Password:
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.7.2 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.8.0 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
--->  MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.8.0
Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:wheel; permissions 0755

Error: Couldn't change permissions of the MacPorts sources at /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base to root: child killed: kill signal
Please run `port -v selfupdate' for details.
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't change permissions of the MacPorts sources at /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base to root: child killed: kill signal
ERROR: Self update failed with exit code: 1
ERROR: MacPorts sync failed

I re-ran the self update with the ‘-v’ option but no error was reported.

I checked the folder permissions:

ls -la /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs  
total 226484
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel          320 Oct 20 11:50 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root wheel           96 Nov 29  2020 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel     18098189 Oct 20 08:34 PortIndex
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel          512 Oct 20 08:56 PortIndex.rmd160
drwxr-xr-x 30 root postgres       960 Oct 20 07:02 base
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel    113716224 Oct 20 07:45 base.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel          512 Oct 20 07:45 base.tar.rmd160
drwxr-xr-x 62 root postgres      1984 Oct 20 11:50 ports
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel    100087808 Oct 20 08:56 ports.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel          512 Oct 20 08:56 ports.tar.rmd160

Group II:

drwxr-xr-x 30 0 505       960 Oct 20 07:02 base
drwxr-xr-x 62 0 505      1984 Oct 20 11:50 ports


The ‘postgres’ group is listed via dscl.

I was not expecting to see the group set to ‘postgres’ on these folders. 

Could you please advise if I should raise one or more tickets for this, and could you confirm what permissions I should expect to find on these folders.


Yours,

Olaf



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