Hi, Already reported. See
https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2022-October/051518.html which includes a link to https://trac.macports.org/ticket/66031 Chris > On 22 Oct 2022, at 1:09 pm, Steven Smith <steve.t.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m consistently getting this error across multiple boxes when doing a > selfupdate to 2.8.0: > >> Congratulations, you have successfully upgraded the MacPorts system. >> >> Error: Couldn't change permissions of the MacPorts sources at >> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base >> to root: child killed: kill signal > > Another selfupdate command ignores the issue, but the ownership of base > appears to be broken: > >> ls -ld >> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base >> drwxr-xr-x 35 messagebus polkitd 1120 Oct 22 07:57 >> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base/