hi there,
today I have set up a new macbook, using the "Migration Assistant" app to move my stuff from the old
machine to the new one.
the only thing which I *excluded* from the offered list of user accounts and other data
(Applications etc.) was the `macports' user since "Migration Assistant" indicated that it would move
the macports user's home dir to /Users on the new machine -- which I assumed to be not desirable
since on the old machine I see
Login: macports Name: MacPorts
Directory: /opt/local/var/macports/home Shell: /usr/bin/false
Never logged in.
No Mail.
No Plan.
and I presume it should stay in that location...
Now, after the data transfer completed, on the new machine I do have a (seemingly/so far) working
Macports installation: Migration Assistant actually transferred the stuff in /opt, too.
BUT, when now trying to selfupdate on the new machine, I get the
message/warning:
Warning: Failed to copy com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to
/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences: could not set owner for file
"/opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist": user "macports" does
not exist
although `finger macports' reports for the new machine that the user is known
Login: macports Name: MacPorts
Directory: /opt/local/var/macports/home Shell: /usr/bin/false
Never logged in.
No Mail.
No Plan.
as does `id macports'.
what am I missing?
thanks,
joerg
