2.11.1 Installation Failed

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Mon Jul 14 12:35:34 UTC 2025


See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/72690

On 14/07/2025 1:21 pm, Chris Jones via macports-users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am also getting a failure of selfupdate when going from 2.11.0 to 2.11.1
> 
> Self update starts OK, and goes through most of the build but fails at 
> the end with
> 
> /usr/bin/install -c -d -o "root" -g "admin" -m "0755" "/opt/local/share/ 
> macports/keys/ports"
> /usr/bin/install -c -d -o "root" -g "admin" -m "0755" "/opt/local/share/ 
> macports/keys/archives"
> /usr/bin/install -c    -o "root" -g "admin" -m 444 ./keys/base/*.pub "/ 
> opt/local/share/macports/keys/base/"
> /usr/bin/install -c    -o "root" -g "admin" -m 444 ./keys/ports/*.pub "/ 
> opt/local/share/macports/keys/ports/"
> /usr/bin/install -c    -o "root" -g "admin" -m 444 ./keys/archives/*.pub 
>   "/opt/local/share/macports/keys/archives/"
> /opt/local/libexec/macports/bin/tclsh8.6 ./src/ 
> upgrade_sources_conf_default.tcl "/opt/local"
> /opt/local/libexec/macports/bin/tclsh8.6 ./src/images_to_archives.tcl
> make: *** [install] Killed: 9
> Command failed: CC=/usr/bin/cc SDKROOT=/Library/Developer/ 
> CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX15.sdk ./configure --prefix=/opt/local -- 
> with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with-directory- 
> mode=0755 --enable-readline && SDKROOT=/Library/Developer/ 
> CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX15.sdk make -j8 SELFUPDATING=1 && make 
> install SELFUPDATING=1
> Exit code: 2
> Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed
> Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe 
> there is a bug.
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new 
> MacPorts base: command execution failed
> 
> 
> Does anyone else get the same issue on selfupdate ?
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 14/07/2025 12:31 pm, Curtis Matz 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?
>>
>> --->  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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