On Feb 10, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Gf B wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt
<ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
Some ports like dbus install system daemons. These daemons have
launchd plists that help you start them. These plists must live in /
Library/LaunchDaemons,
???
What's wrong with just running "launchctl load [-w] /path/to/my/
plist"?
Clearly, the dbus port is not required at the machine's boot-up, not
even if one wants to ultimately run ports that depend on dbus. (In
fact, IRC, when one installs the Emacs+x11 port using root
privileges, one can start using Emacs on X11 right away, without
having to reboot the machine or do anything that launches the dbus
daemon.) This means that dbus can be started just as well when the
user logs in, for example, along with other programs that start
automatically at this time. If this reasoning is correct, then the
problem here is to modify the port activation code so that it is
possible to make different arrangements for getting the dbus plists
loaded without touching /Library.
At the very least, I would like to find out how to make the
installation appear successful, even when the activation step failed
(so that ports that depend on dbus will still be installed by
MacPorts). I'll make sure that the necessary daemons are properly
started, etc. (Actually, the extent of Emacs' dependence on dbus is
not entirely clear to me; I find it a bit hard to believe that it's
an absolute requirement.)
Can someone point me to the files that I would need to hack to
achieve any this?
Wouldn't using the dbus +no_startupitem variant achieve what you want?
And possibly +no_root.
$ port variants dbus
dbus has the variants:
no_root: Run the DBUS daemon as MacPorts install user.
no_startupitem: Do not install startup files.
test: enable tests
universal: Build for multiple architectures
$ sudo port install dbus +no_startupitem
--
Brad
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