2.11.1 Installation Failed

[Curtis Matz]

I’ve only ever run with sudo not a shell with elevated privileges.  Is this new? I’ve never had to do that before.

> On Jul 14, 2025, at 7:36 AM, Nils Breunese <breun at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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