2.11.1 Installation Failed

Curtis Matz curtis at matzzone.com
Mon Jul 14 11:31:51 UTC 2025


I normally don’t have any issues with Macports but with the new release I’m receiving this error after Macports told me to run port -v selfupdate.  Is the “permission denied” error an issue?

--->  Checking for newer releases of MacPorts
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    63  100    63    0     0    694      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   700
MacPorts base version 2.11.1 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.11.1 available.
--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar
Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de.
Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
Transfer starting: 3 files
./
ports.tar.gz
ports.tar.gz.rmd160

sent 35907 bytes  received 394618 bytes  4305250000 bytes/sec
total size is 35522384  speedup is 82.51
Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de.
Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar.
Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de.
Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync.
Transfer starting: 3 files
rsync(15040): error: PortIndex: utimensat (2): Permission denied
./
PortIndex
PortIndex.rmd160

sent 138 bytes  received 3134347 bytes  31344850000 bytes/sec
total size is 24679350  speedup is 7.87

The ports tree has been updated.
All installed ports are up to date.



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