Re: Ports tree setup for development

2018-09-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
That worked well. Thanks, Chris. Seems port selfupdate tries to recursively set the ownership of the $portdbpath/sources directory:: # set the MacPorts sources to the right owner set sources_owner [file attributes [file join $portdbpath sources/] -owner] ui_debug "Setting MacPorts sou

Re: Ports tree setup for development

2018-09-06 Thread Christopher Jones
Hi, I have a complete clone of the port tree, but just under my regular user account. Oberon ~/Projects/MacPorts/ports > git status On branch master Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. nothing to commit, working tree clean then, in your macports sources.conf, just point it at this

Ports tree setup for development

2018-09-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
Hi, Just wondering how people have their ports tree set up for development? I ask because I had cloned the macports-ports repo to: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/github.com/macports/macports-ports then ran `sudo port selfupdate` and all the files then changed ownership to root. D'oh! After