Hello,
I'm trying to use macports and ports from git sources. I have followed
the instructions from the
[https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.git manual], but it
doesn't work.
The port macports-base compiles well, but it is impossible to install
any port as root (as well as user). I have an error message.
- As sudo : /"Error: Unable to execute port: Could not open file:
macports-ports/sysutils/coreutils/Portfile"/
- As user : /"Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts
install prefix."/
I need to chown the macports-base tree to the user who is running the
port, and then most of them can compile, but only as user, and not as root.
sudo chown -R $UID:$GROUPS $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base
sudo chown -R $UID:$GROUPS $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-ports
Some of ports still need to have root access, and cannot be installed
(eg libnetpbm) and then cannot be installed.
The error message is : /"Error: Failed to destroot libnetpbm: command
execution failed"/
Note that this seems to work if instead of using a subdir of $HOME as
root for projects, a subdir of /tmp is used to build the ports.
Here is a script that simulates the test cases.
Regards, Joel
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/57894
MACPORTS_DIR=$HOME/macports/WORK
mkdir -p $MACPORTS_DIR
chmod 755 $MACPORTS_DIR
cd $MACPORTS_DIR
git clone --depth 1 --branch v2.5.4
https://github.com/macports/macports-base.git
git clone --depth 1 --branch master
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git
# Adapting to use local ports (replacing rsync:// and file:// in sources
with file://$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-ports)
find $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base -name 'sources.conf' -exec /usr/bin/sed
-i '' -E 's/^(rsync|file)(.*)$/#\1\2/' {} \;
find $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base -name 'sources.conf' -exec sh -c "echo
'file://$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-ports [default]' >> {}" \;
# Building base ports
cd $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base
export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
mkdir -p $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/Applications
./configure --enable-readline --prefix=$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base
--with-applications-dir=$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/Applications
--without-startupitems
make -j8
# make install needs sudo, but it changes owner to root on installed files
sudo make install
sudo make distclean
export
PATH=$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base:$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/bin:$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/sbin:$PATH
cd $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-ports
$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/bin/portindex
# Failure when installing as sudo
sudo $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/bin/port install -vd coreutils
sudo $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/bin/port install -vd libnetpbm
sudo chown -R $UID:$GROUPS $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base
sudo chown -R $UID:$GROUPS $MACPORTS_DIR/macports-ports
# After chown done, some ports can build, but not when sudo access is needed
$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/bin/port install -vd coreutils
$MACPORTS_DIR/macports-base/bin/port install -vd libnetpbm
