Upgraded to Mavericks and now I can't update MacPorts

Tim Haigh timhaigh at mac.com
Tue Oct 29 00:21:38 PDT 2013


I had to reinstall macports using the Subversion Install to make it work well in Mavericks.


On 28 Oct 2013, at 21:23, Patrick Burton <burtonpatrick0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I updated to Mavericks and also updated Xcode but I can’t seem to be able to update macports. I get the following error:
> 
> $ port -v selfupdate
> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
> receiving file list ... done
> 
> sent 36 bytes  received 69 bytes  70.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 4925440  speedup is 46908.95
> receiving file list ... done
> 
> sent 36 bytes  received 76 bytes  74.67 bytes/sec
> total size is 512  speedup is 4.57
> Error: can't create directory "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/tmp": permission denied
> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>     http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: can't create directory "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/tmp": permission denied
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -Patrick
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