On Jul 30, 2011, at 02:36, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2011-7-30 16:16 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> What's the reason to use dseditgroup here in the Makefile to create the >> group? portutil.tcl uses dscl to create groups, and that seems to have >> always worked before. > > That's what the makefile already used in the group target, plus it > seemed more convenient because you don't have to find a free gid > yourself.
Mm. You say the Makefile already used this before MacPorts 2.0.0? Where did we have to make a group before? > The man page [1] claims that this should work even on Tiger; > does using -v give any more info? It does... $ sudo dseditgroup -v -o create -n . macports Password: dseditgroup verbose mode Options selected by user: Create option selected Nodename provided as <.> Username determined to be <root> Groupname provided as <macports> dsFindDirNodes using input nodename dsFindDirNodes returned the error <-14008> getNodeRef failed to obtain a node reference _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
