Can't update to 2.3.0

[rudloff@…]

I get an error when I try to selfupdate:

===> making install in doc
/usr/bin/install -c -d -o prudloff -g D_IRCADWeBS -m 755 "/Users/prudloff/opt"
install: D_IRCADWeBS: Invalid argument
make[1]: *** [install] Error 67
make: *** [install] Error 1
Command failed: cd /Users/prudloff/opt/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base && CC=/usr/bin/cc OBJC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix=/Users/prudloff/opt --with-tclpackage=/Users/prudloff/Library/Tcl --with-install-user=prudloff --with-install-group=D_IRCAD\WeBS --with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1
Exit code: 2
Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed
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Error: /Users/prudloff/opt/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed

[rudloff@…]

selfupdate log

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

It seems there's something wrong with the name of the group MacPorts tries to use to update itself. This group name is given in the configure command line as

--with-install-group=D_IRCAD\WeBS

and is the group of $prefix, so in your case /Users/prudloff/opt. Try changing this group to something sane using chgrp, such as your user's primary group. Then, try again.

[rudloff@…]

Well, we use distant login on a domain so D_IRCAD\WeBS is a valid group, but it looks like the backslash is lost somewhere in the process.

I have tried chgrp to a local group and it works.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

OK, so that's a bug in MacPorts, which should really escape the backslash for the shell then. I'll see what I can do.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

I think this should be fixed in r122042 and r122044.