Could you reproduce the issue? I tried a number of ways to fix that, but nothing worked. Sudo anything does not work from the portfile code, and I am not sure how to otherwise emulate “sudo -u normal-non-root-user”.
(If you got no arm64 hardware, presumably things will be the same on recent-enough x86_64, though I cannot verify that. For the same reason I cannot try running tests with 2.x version, as there is no Qt5 support in it.) On Feb 25, 2024 at 04:49 +0700, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com>, wrote: > You are completely right, and I was wrong about this. > > I am now not certain how it came to be that macports was installed under the > root user for the 10.6-ppc installation in the mentioned ticket (assuming I > got the part right). > > K > > > On Feb 24, 2024, at 13:07, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > > > On 25/2/2024 03:07, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > > Some of your macports installations are installed as the root user, > > > instead of the macports user. > > > This happened because there is no installer for 10.6-ppc to automatically > > > create the macports user. You have an open ticket about this too, where I > > > pointed to the commands to be run to generate the macports user. > > > Sooner or later you will probably have to fix this. > > > > It shouldn't make any difference to this whether you use the pkg installer > > or install from source, since the Makefile also creates the run user. > > Unless of course you specifically tell configure --with-macports-user=root > > (very not recommended). > > > > - Josh
