Local Port Repo Instructions Should Address Permissions Issue

[dave@…]

The many tickets complaining of permissions issues on local portfile repos are evidence that the instructions at ​http://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-repositories.html should be updated. In particular, it may well be that the requirement that portfiles be readable by "nobody" make it inappropriate for most users to store the ports under their home directories, as the ticket suggests. Also, the ticket should suggest specific permissions and ownership for local portfile repos that will help avoid this issue, and suggest sudo -u nobody ls <directory> as a test

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Yes, ever since we merged the GSoC '08 privilege-dropping branch into trunk, those instructions have been out of date. I don't know how the instructions need to be changed to make them valid again. If anybody else does, patches to the guide XML files would be welcome.

BTW it's not the "nobody" user that needs to be able to read the portfiles; it's the "macports" user.

[dave@…]

For me, locating the repository under /Library/ was enough to make it work.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

I think #38216 is a duplicate of this

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

I opened #38216 for my todo list. I guess I’ll just take this one instead.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

BTW it's not the "nobody" user that needs to be able to read the portfiles; it's the "macports" user.

It's whatever macportsuser is set to in macports.conf.