I’ve only ever run with sudo not a shell with elevated privileges. Is this new? I’ve never had to do that before.
> On Jul 14, 2025, at 7:36 AM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote: > > Curtis Matz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I normally don’t have any issues with Macports but with the new release I’m >> receiving this error after Macports told me to run port -v selfupdate. Is >> the “permission denied” error an issue? > > Yes. Did you run ’sudo port -v selfupdate’, or run ‘port -v selfupdate’ in a > shell with elevated privileges? If not, you should. > > Nils. > >> ---> Checking for newer releases of MacPorts >> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current >> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed >> 100 63 100 63 0 0 694 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- >> 700 >> MacPorts base version 2.11.1 installed, >> MacPorts base version 2.11.1 available. >> ---> MacPorts base is already the latest version >> ---> Updating the ports tree >> Synchronizing local ports tree from >> rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar >> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de. >> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar. >> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de. >> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync. >> Transfer starting: 3 files >> ./ >> ports.tar.gz >> ports.tar.gz.rmd160 >> >> sent 35907 bytes received 394618 bytes 4305250000 bytes/sec >> total size is 35522384 speedup is 82.51 >> Willkommen auf dem RSYNC-server auf ftp.fau.de. >> Nicht all unsere Mirror sind per rsync verfuegbar. >> Welcome to the RSYNC daemon on ftp.fau.de. >> Not all of our mirrors are available through rsync. >> Transfer starting: 3 files >> rsync(15040): error: PortIndex: utimensat (2): Permission denied >> ./ >> PortIndex >> PortIndex.rmd160 >> >> sent 138 bytes received 3134347 bytes 31344850000 bytes/sec >> total size is 24679350 speedup is 7.87 >> >> The ports tree has been updated. >> All installed ports are up to date. >> >
