I have been wracking my brains trying to understand this, but have come up
short.
Every time I do a `sudo port -c -u selfupdate`, many files in
`<install_root>/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs`
end up with GID 505. E.G.:
% ls -l
<install_root>/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
total 334112
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 13829383 Nov 7 04:55 PortIndex
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 512 Nov 6 21:24 PortIndex.rmd160
drwxr-xr-x 29 root 505 928 Oct 20 14:58 base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 85712384 Oct 20 15:16 base.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 512 Oct 20 15:16 base.tar.rmd160
drwxr-xr-x 62 root 505 1984 Nov 7 06:48 ports
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 71507456 Nov 7 06:37 ports.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 512 Nov 7 06:37 ports.tar.rmd160
No group with ID 505 exists on my system. (`dscl . -search /Groups
PrimaryGroupID 505` provides no output.) If I change the GID to `macports`
(e.g., `sudo find <install_root> -group 505 -exec chgrp -v macports \{\} \;`),
they’ll only be changed back on the next `selfupdate`. I tried digging into
`<install_root>/etc/…` `<install_root>/var/macports/…` but didn’t see anything.
I even tried reading the source code for `selfupdate`, but didn’t see what was
going on there either. (Granted, I don’t know Tcl that well.)
Is this normal? Why 505? Is that configurable? Is it supposed to be something
else? How do I change it?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
