I got an email today noting that osxutils now installs correctly in MacPorts under MacOS 10.5 Leopard.  I have tested it and this appears to be correct, the commands:

sudo port -d selfupdate
sudo port -d sync
sudo port install osxutils 

did indeed install osxutils as promised.   I also noticed they upgraded from version 1.6 to 1.7, maybe that was all that was necessary.  All the MacPorts packages I used in Tiger now work in Leopard. Now if I could only get a proper recompile of PHP working under Leopard.