MacPorts 2.0.0-beta3 now available for testing

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Jul 7 22:57:12 PDT 2011


On 2011-7-8 12:09 , Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:42, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>> Notable changes since beta1 are:
>>  * The pkg installer now actually creates the macports user as intended
>>   (apparently nobody installed beta1 using the pkg?)
> 
> For what it's worth, I saw no errors either during the install or in
> using the installed MacPorts beta 1.  Could the user have already
> existed, or something?

If your macports.conf was created by 1.8.x, it would have macportsuser
uncommented and set to root. So that would also hide the problem.

- Josh


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