Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 01:20, Rainer Müller wrote: >> In my opinion binaries which are vital for the operation of MacPorts >> should be used from an absolute path. As far as I see, this is only >> bzip2 in registry1.0 as you cannot activate/deactivate ports anymore >> when bzip2 is broken. 'port deactivate' can most probably fix >> easily all >> other issues introduced by broken binaries in PATH. > > bzip2 is essential for dealing with receipts, yes, but bzip2, gzip > and tar are also essential for decompressing the vast majority of > distfiles. We've seen failures at extract time when a user migrated a > bzip2 from a previous Mac's MacPorts installation that got broken.
In my opinion decompressing distfiles is not vital. When the registry is broken, it is hard to get it fixed agin. But if a decompressor (tar, gzip, bzip2) is broken, it's easy to deactivate this port and use the one from the system. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
