On Dec 10, 2015, at 16:42, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Should I be able to see a user “macports” in System Preferences > Users & > Groups? > > I see no such.
Nope, it should be a hidden user, like all the other user accounts MacPorts ports might create. > However, under /Users there is a directory “macports” owned by > macports:staff. It has with subdirectories Desktop, Documents, …Sites , which > are all owned by macports:staff, as is that directory “macports” itself. > > Each of those subdirectories contains a single file, “.localized”. There's no reason for /Users/macports to exist. Maybe migration assistant made it. You could delete it. > I ask the question because of an issue that arose when I migrated everything > fom an old Mac to a new one via a Time Machine backup. Migration Assistant > said there was a problem with user macports. > > After migration, there was no directory /opt/local/var/macports, yet the port > command seems to work OK, including for upgrading outdated ports. /opt/local/var/macports is a hidden directory usually I think. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
