Problem with port selfupdate on OS X 10.8.2

[xave@…]

With sudo port -v selfupdate I receive:

===>making install in doc
/usr/bin/install -c -d -o macports -g 502 -m 0755 /opt/local
/usr/bin/install -c -d -o macports -g 502 -m 0755 /opt/local/etc/macports
< prefix.mtree /usr/sbin/mtree -U -e -p /opt/local > /dev/null
mtree: line 6: unknown group 502
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 1
Command failed: cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base && CC=/usr/bin/cc 
./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl --with-install-user=macports --with-install-group=502 
--with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make && make install SELFUPDATING=1
Exit code: 2
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Hmm, what is the number of the macports group on your system then, and has it changed since MacPorts was installed?

[xave@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Hmm, what is the number of the macports group on your system then, and has it changed since MacPorts was installed?

Since the first installation of macports I never modified group information
However if this is helpful

xxxx$ id -Gn macports
macports everyone localaccounts com.apple.sharepoint.group.1
xxxx$ id  macports
uid=502(macports) gid=501(macports) groups=501(macports),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1)

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

This means that /opt/local is owned by user macports and group id 502, although no group exists with that group id. Did you copy the prefix around, restore from a backup or anything similar?

[xave@…]

Replying to raimue@…:

This means that /opt/local is owned by user macports and group id 502, although no group exists with that group id. Did you copy the prefix around, restore from a backup or anything similar?

I 've upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard with a fresh installation and then to Mountain Lion.
Then I've installed macports with MacPorts-2.1.2-10.8-MountainLion.pkg.
With the following:

xxxx$ cd /opt
xxxx$ ls -lht
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  12 macports  502     408B 26 Ott 16:05 local
drwxr-xr-x   8 root      wheel   272B 24 Mag  2012 X11
xxxx$ cd local
local xxxx$ ls -lht
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  594 macports  502      20K 16 Feb 19:27 bin
drwxr-xr-x   58 macports  502     1,9K 16 Feb 19:20 share
drwxr-xr-x   10 root      admin   340B 16 Feb 19:01 etc
drwxr-xr-x  354 root      admin    12K 16 Feb 19:01 include
drwxr-xr-x  984 macports  502      33K 16 Feb 19:01 lib
drwxr-xr-x   10 root      admin   340B 16 Feb 14:34 libexec
drwxr-xr-x    8 root      admin   272B 22 Gen 09:41 sbin
drwxr-xr-x    6 root      admin   204B 29 Nov 23:07 var
drwxr-xr-x    5 root      wheel   170B 29 Nov 20:14 Library
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root      admin     9B 11 Ago  2012 man -> share/man

This is a very messy condition

If everything below /opt must be of a specific user and of a specific group can I try the following:

sudo chown -R  a_user.a_group /opt  ?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

By default the prefix should be owned by root/admin, not macports. The point of building as another user is that it can't modify files outside of the workpath.

[xave@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

By default the prefix should be owned by root/admin, not macports. The point of building as another user is that it can't modify files outside of the workpath.

With

cd /opt 
sudo chgrp macports local
cd local 
sudo chgrp bin lib share macports

it seems that there are no problem with selfupdate and then with upgrade outdated

Thanks for the help

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to xave@…:

With

cd /opt 
sudo chgrp macports local
cd local 
sudo chgrp bin lib share macports

it seems that there are no problem with selfupdate and then with upgrade outdated

No, this is wrong. Your /opt/local should be owned by user root and group admin.

[xave@…]

Replying to larryv@…:

Replying to xave@…:

With

cd /opt 
sudo chgrp macports local
cd local 
sudo chgrp bin lib share macports

it seems that there are no problem with selfupdate and then with upgrade outdated

No, this is wrong. Your /opt/local should be owned by user root and group admin.

OK

changed

Thanks

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

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