On Dec 1, 2007, at 18:30, Anthony Michael Agelastos wrote:
I just noticed the following as I updated my installation.
---> Fetching ghostscript
---> Attempting to fetch ghostscript-8.61.tar.gz from http://
downloads.sourceforge.net/ghostscript
---> Verifying checksum(s) for ghostscript
---> Extracting ghostscript
---> Applying patches to ghostscript
---> Configuring ghostscript
---> Building ghostscript
---> Staging ghostscript into destroot
Warning: ghostscript requests to install files outside the common
directory structure!
---> Deactivating ghostscript 8.60_0
---> Installing ghostscript 8.61_0
The following files have been renamed (and should be removed):
/private/etc/cups/pstoraster.convs -> /private/etc/cups/
pstoraster.convs.old
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstopxl -> /usr/libexec/cups/filter/
pstopxl.old
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster -> /usr/libexec/cups/filter/
pstoraster.old
/usr/share/cups/model/pxlcolor.ppd -> /usr/share/cups/model/
pxlcolor.ppd.old
/usr/share/cups/model/pxlmono.ppd -> /usr/share/cups/model/
pxlmono.ppd.old
---> Activating ghostscript 8.61_0
---> Cleaning ghostscript
This has prompted me to ask a few questions, which I have
enumerated below. Thank you for your assistance in helping me
answer these.
1) What files has this port installed outside of the common
directory structure?
You can find out what files it installs by using "port contents
ghostscript". It looks like it's these files:
/private/etc/cups/pstoraster.convs
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstopxl
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/share/cups/model/pxlcolor.ppd
/usr/share/cups/model/pxlmono.ppd
2) If I `sudo port uninstall ghostscript`, will it put things back
to how they were prior to this upgrade (will it fix any of the
Apple files/programs/directories that the port modified in 1))?
If the port modified any Apple-provided files, then no. But, no port
should be modifying any Apple-provided files. They may merely (as per
the message) be installing new files outside the MacPorts prefix. And
if so, then yes, "port uninstall" will uninstall those files also.
3) What does the "no_cups" variant do?
Probably installs ghostscript without support for CUPS (the Common
Unix Printing Solution). "port variants ghostscript" says so. Not
sure what exactly that entails for ghostscript. But it sounds like it
might entail not installing things outside the MacPorts prefix. Which
would be good, especially if you do not plan to use the CUPS features
of ghostscript, whatever those might be. (Perhaps the maintainer can
enlighten us.)
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