Selfupdate permission error

[support@…]

Hi,

I cant seem to get port working correctly, below is my shell return.

server:sshfs-fuse-2.4 NBhosting$ port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done
rsync: mkstemp "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/.base.tar.rmQwoq" failed: Permission denied (13)
inflate returned -3 (140 bytes)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/token.c(419) [receiver=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (31 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/io.c(452) [generator=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
Exit code: 12
Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
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Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed

[support@…]

i got xcode and commandline tools installed and the user macports added to /opt but no luck

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Please try again with sudo. Do not set priority to high, since doing so is reserved for MacPorts developers as documented in the Ticket Guidelines prominently linked from the new ticket page.

[support@…]

thanks that fixed it

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Please also revert the permission change to /opt or /opt/local; the macports user cannot write those directories on purpose.