2.11.1 Installation Failed

Nils Breunese breun at macports.org
Mon Jul 14 11:36:14 UTC 2025


Curtis Matz <curtis at matzzone.com> wrote:

> 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?

Yes. Did you run ’sudo port -v selfupdate’, or run ‘port -v selfupdate’ in a shell with elevated privileges? If not, you should.

Nils.

> --->  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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