I ran port -v selfupdate in an elevated shell and I no longer receive the permission error. I went back to a user shell and ran sudo port -v selfupdate and no errors.
Thanks Nils. > On Jul 14, 2025, at 7:40 AM, Curtis Matz <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >>> >> >
