Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#33299 closed defect
--with-macports-user also sets the group — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | thomas.c.jansen@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | 2.0.3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
Installing MacPorts from source will fails with the missing user "macports" (it would be great if this would be explained in the install documentation), but this can be overwritten with the "--with-macports-user" switch for "configure".
However, using "--with-macports-user=root" will result in the following error message when trying to "sudo make install":
===> making install in doc /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g admin -m 0755 /opt/local /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g admin -m 0755 /opt/local/etc/macports < prefix.mtree /usr/sbin/mtree -U -e -p /opt/local > /dev/null < base.mtree /usr/sbin/mtree -U -e -p /opt/local > /dev/null mtree: line 16: unknown group root make[1]: * [install] Error 1 make: * [install] Error 1
Looking into "./doc/base.mtree" reveals that "root" is also used as the group:
Preferences uname=root gname=root mode=755
Changing the "gname" to "admin" solves the problem.