Hi, ----- On 10 Oct, 2016, at 15:11, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote:
> I've been bitten once too often by an oversight that I c/should have seen if > `port provides` worked. It's not been working for me for a long time, and > mostly I don't really miss it, but now I'd like to figure out if there's a way > to get this feature online again. > > Without reinstalling from scratch, of course. > > What could this be related to? IIRC the problem was that your installation mangled paths somehow, either by making /opt/local a symlink or some other uncommon configuration. > FWIW, I do get a proper error when a port tries to install a file already > installed by another file, so a priori the information is all there. You'll forgive me when I just tell you that problems caused by unsupported modifications made by you locally are not supported by MacPorts. I won't spend any time diagnosing this unless you can show that it's broken in a fresh install. -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
