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.