This has been fixed in changeset 30458 (http://trac.macosforge.org/
projects/macports/changeset/30458) and reported upstream at http://
avahi.org/ticket/177
On 26 Oct 2007, at 17:42, James Sumners wrote:
I didn't look back at the wiki to verify /System versus /Library. I
just went with what the port was trying to do.
Do you want me to file the report? Or would you like to? Clearly you
have a better understanding of what it should be doing.
On 10/26/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:46, paul beard wrote:
On 10/26/07, James Sumners wrote:
I've been wrestling with MacPorts for the past couple days
trying to
get Gnucash updated. During which, I've removed and reinstalled
MacPorts a couple of times. This time, when building avahi I got
this
error:
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist
already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to
activate port avahi.
Investigating this, I found out that avahi installs
"org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist" and
"org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd.plist" to
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Removing these files is not
covered in
the MacPorts uninstall instructions on the wiki. The instruct the
user
to remove /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* . So my
question is, should avahi install files named as such? Or should it
install them as " org.macports.avahi-*"?
Hmm.
[/Users/paul]:: port provides /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
org.freedesktop.avahi- daemon.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist is
provided by: avahi
Well, that does seem like a reasonable expectation: at first I
thought they may come from you installing from source.
Looks like wiki or the policy needs to be reviewed.
No port (and no other non-Apple software) should ever install
anything under /System!!!! The port needs to be revised to install
not in /System/Library but in /Library, and the name of the plist
should begin with org.macports not org.freedesktop. I don't see
anything in the portfile that causes this, so it must be the
project's own Makefile. In this case, a patch will need to be written
to change the name of the file. In addition, the authors of the avahi
should be notified to never install anything under /System. Someone
should file a Trac bug on this and assign and Cc it to the port's
maintainer.
--
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is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
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