On Dec 17, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Simon Ruderich wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:22:48AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
This is normal. The port does request to install files outside of
the common
directory structure. That's what you've indicated by adding
"destroot.violate_mtree" to the portfile. port is simply informing
the user
of this, because otherwise the user might rightly assume that all
items were
installed in "normal" places within ${prefix}.
Hi Ryan,
thanks for your help. I added a small description to the guide. Is
this okay?
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/changeset/32129
"This is not really a warning" (quote from the Changeset)
Well, actually it is. This indicates that the software that will just
be installed does not meet our 'mtree' requirements *).
Think of it more like a warning of a C compiler, like "warning:
possible loss of precision" -- might be o.k. for you, but might also
be fatal. Ports that e.g. have to install executables in /usr/sbin *)
can totally hose your system. They probably won't, but they could.
Perhaps we should make those fatal again and add an option to port(1)
for ignoring warnings, like `port --I-know-what-Im-doing install foo'.
Regards,
-Markus
*) for whatever reason
PS: You have a duplicate "set" in the 1st sentence.
--
Dipl. Inf. (FH) Markus W. Weissmann
http://www.macports.org/
http://www.mweissmann.de/
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