selfupdate failed: User root does not own /opt/local

[domsou@…]

$ sudo port selfupdate

MacPorts base version 1.710 installed
Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.800
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: User root does not own /opt/local - try using sudo

That's a funny situation !

Further details

I am running Mac OS 10.5.8.
/opt/local group is admin
Everything worked fine before this error.

[domsou@…]

Cc Me!

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Can you check that /opt and /opt/local are 755 root:admin?

I'd just trash /opt/local and use the package installer. :-)

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Oh, but you're not using 10.6 yet. Don't trash it! my bad

[domsou@…]

Hi !

$ cd /opt/local
$ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   4 domsou  admin   136 15 jul 02:06 .
drwxrwxr-t@ 35 root           admin  1258  2 sep 10:40 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 domsou  admin  6148 23 jul 01:36 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x  16 domsou  admin   544  1 sep 19:18 local

Trash /opt/local/ ans use the package installer will work I presume. But I don't want to do this because I have a professional Apache/MySQL PHP configuration running and re-install it may takes time and then leads to errors : not for now !

And next week I gonna switch to 10.6 !

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Well, if you had archive mode going you could copy your packages in again by placing the archives in var/macports/packages/darwin/i386

If not, just wait a week :-)

You might also be able to install the disk image overtop rather than deleting /opt/local

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

So the message is correct at least: root does not own /opt/local (domsou does)

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Should be fixed by r60798.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Merged to 1.8 branch in r60799.