mpkg target needs to regain root privileges before running pkg target on dependencies

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

The past couple days I've been trying to make an mdmg for pspp-devel. It errors out with a permissions message when working with Xft2 (see attached debug log):

Error: Target org.macports.mpkg returned: can't create directory "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_Xft2": permission denied

I've run clean on Xft2 and retried but it doesn't make any impact. Is it base's fault or is something else going on?

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Since Xft2 is the first dependency it might be that some directory that contains its working directory might not exist prior to the pkg creation.

That is, I can skip the issue by running sudo port pkg Xft2 and then sudo port mpkg pspp-devel.

Perhaps the creation of the full path for the working directory needs permissions that are being dropped.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

You'll also notice that after successfully doing mpkg, there's another permissions issue when creating the disk image:

/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_aeetes_math_pspp-devel/work/pspp-devel-0.7.5.mpkg: Authentication error
hdiutil: create failed - Permission denied

That error is the cause of the return code 1.

Rerunning the same command with sudo is successful.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

It's not premature privilege dropping, the mpkg target is just weird. r72237