Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#50109 closed defect (invalid)
Migrating Macports for El Capitan- reinstalling ports fails (permission denied)
| Reported by: | nilou.fgh.60@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 2.3.4 |
| Keywords: | elcapitan | Cc: | |
| Port: |
Description
Hi,
I have upgraded my MacBook Pro Retina from OS X Yosemite to OS X El Capitan. I used MacPorts version 2.3.4 with OS X Yosemite and it is installed on my Mac. Xcode 7.2 and the command line developer tools are installed. Following the instructions to upgrade MacPorts, I tried to save the list of the installed ports: (port -qv installed > myports.txt) but apparently the permissions of myports.txt do not allow to change the file. Do I simply change the permissions of myports.txt or is it due to a deeper issue?
Many thanks, Nilou.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Keywords: | elcapitan added; El Capitan removed |
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| Type: | update → defect |
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by nilou.fgh.60@…
Following (wiki:Migration) I typed
port -qv installed > myports.txt
and got
myports.txt: Permission denied.
Just tried it again from my home directory and do not get the message. The Permission denied message is when I run the command from the "/opt/local/etc/macports/" directory.
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Ok, that's completely normal. The command "port -qv installed > myports.txt" creates a file myports.txt in the current directory, so you need to have write permission in the current directory. /opt/local/etc/macports is not a directory where normal users have write permission, so that should not be your current directory when you run the command. Being in your home directory is a good choice.
Can you show us the exact transcript of what commands you typed and what error you got?