I’m consistently getting this error across multiple boxes when doing a selfupdate to 2.8.0:
> Congratulations, you have successfully upgraded the MacPorts system. > > Error: Couldn't change permissions of the MacPorts sources at > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base > to root: child killed: kill signal Another selfupdate command ignores the issue, but the ownership of base appears to be broken: > ls -ld > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base > drwxr-xr-x 35 messagebus polkitd 1120 Oct 22 07:57 > /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base/