Ticket #120 (closed defect: fixed)
ports tools installed with restricted permissions
| Reported by: | cmeyer100@… | Owned by: | kvv@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | 1.0 |
| Keywords: | DarwinPorts | Cc: | |
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Description
I checked out the latest ports from the server, followed the instructions for installing:
make sudo make install
Then I added /opt/local/bin to my path, restarted Terminal (using Mac OS X 1.2.1 -- Darwin Kernel Version 6.1: Fri Sep 6 23:24:34 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.2.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC).
Then tried 'port sync' and got the following permissions error:
[src] % port sync Failed to initialize ports system, portdbpath /opt/local/var/db/dports does not exist and could not be created: can't create directory "/opt/local/var": permission denied
Looking in the Makefile's I see that the directories are created with 'root:wheel' and permission 444.
So it seems either the directories need to set the group to something like 'staff' or the README file needs to indicate that one needs to 'sudo ports ...' commands. I'm not sure which it would be so maybe someone with more knowledge could suggest a solution (or point out where I'm missing something, and point out where I went wrong or a better solution).