It's basically a bug that it tries to write the statefile when doing a livecheck. The reason why this hasn't been fixed is it requires some significant changes to the targets subsystem to fix. On Jun 15, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-06-14 03:29:28 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
$ port livecheck maintainer:ryandesign Error: Unable to execute port: /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ _Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_graphics_ImageMagick/ work/.darwinports.ImageMagick.state is not writable - check permission on port directory
It's non-intuitive that it would have to write anything to disk when all I'm asking it to do is check the contents of some remote web sites.
I suppose that it's for a cache. I wonder if there shouldn't be a macports group so that regular users could be added to this group and no longer need to sudo.
-- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org eridius@macports.org http://www.tildesoft.com