At 8:27 PM -0500 8/7/12, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Aug 7, 2012, at 20:19, Craig Treleaven <[email protected]> wrote:
A (potential) user is trying to help with testing a portfile I've
developed, mythtv-core.25, but we're having a problem. Originally,
I've emailed him the Portfile and related support files. He is
running Lion Server with the latest MacPorts installed. He was
able to install qt4-mac +mysql (a dependency). When he attempts to
install Myth, all of Myth's dependencies ARE installed but then it
aborts with the following error:
At 7:21 PM -0500 8/6/12, Nelson M Sanchez <Nelson M. Sanchez> wrote:
DEBUG: Attempting ln -sf
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_Nelson_mythtv-core.25-v20120731/mythtv-core.25/work
/Users/Nelson/mythtv-core.25-v20120731/work
DEBUG: changing euid/egid - current euid: 0 - current egid: 0
DEBUG: egid changed to: 505
DEBUG: euid changed to: 502
DEBUG: could not read
"/Users/Nelson/mythtv-core.25-v20120731/Portfile": permission
denied
while executing
"file mtime ${portpath}/Portfile"
(procedure "open_statefile" line 47)
invoked from within
"open_statefile"
(procedure "check_variants" line 29)
invoked from within
"check_variants activate"
invoked from within
"$workername eval check_variants $target"
(procedure "mportexec" line 7)
invoked from within
"mportexec $workername $target"
Error: Unable to execute port: could not read
"/Users/Nelson/mythtv-core.25-v20120731/Portfile": permission
denied
Earlier, he was connecting to this machine via Apple Remote
Desktop and I thought perhaps that was creating the permissions
problem. He is now working directly on the box so I think that was
a red herring.
Could someone help us figure out was is going wrong?
MacPorts was modified some time ago to drop privileges to an
unprivileged user (the "macports" user). While this change is nice
for ensuring that ports don't go modifying files on your system that
they're not authorized to modify, it throws a kind into our
instructions for how to install from random Portfiles located
anywhere on your disk, since the "macports" user probably won't have
permission to read files in your home directory.
OK, but:
1) MacPorts already read the Portfile to process the dependencies?!?
2) I should have included that permissions seem to allow Everyone to read:
At 7:21 PM -0500 8/6/12, Nelson M Sanchez <Nelson M. Sanchez> wrote:
homeserver:mythtv-core.25-v20120731 Nelson$ ls -al
total 40
drwx------@ 5 Nelson staff 170 Aug 6 19:16 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 35 Nelson staff 1190 Aug 6 19:16 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 Nelson com.apple.local.ard_admin 13157 Aug 5 09:28 Portfile
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 Nelson com.apple.local.ard_admin 442 Aug 6 19:16 files
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 88 Aug 6 19:16
work ->
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_Nelson_mythtv-core.25-v20120731/mythtv-core.25/work
3) I believe the error indicates that MacPorts can't open its own
statefile in the work directory, no?
Craig
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