On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Arno Hautala wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:11, Adam Dershowitz <[email protected]> wrote: >> One is that I still need sudo to run all my macports commands. I believe >> that this should no longer be necessary. >> Does doing a selfupdate not create the new macport user? Does that have to >> be done manually or some other way? > > If you've upgraded and aren't seeing any build errors, this feature is > probably working just fine. The macports user is used for building, > but root is still necessary for the activation of a port when the > files are moved into place. There are other discussions about not > requiring sudo to build and install, but those are regarding > non-standard installations. Got it. I misunderstood the feature. I have not been getting build errors. > >> Two is that I am using OS 10.6.8, yet I have never seen a binary download. >> I still always download source and then it builds. > > This should indeed be the default. Can you post a transcript a port > installation? It's possible that the ports that you've installed > aren't available as pre-compiled binaries (licensing, variants, etc). > There should be a status line that states that port is trying to fetch > the binary from http://packages.macports.org/ You can browse that page > to verify that the port you're installing should be available. > At this point my ports are up to date. I do have a good number of ports installed and have never noticed a binary download. But, I will keep an eye on it, and post transcripts if anything that seems relevant comes up. Thanks, _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
