Am 23.09.2011 um 06:29 schrieb Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>:

> On Sep 22, 2011, at 22:55, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>> Hello. I'm having issues installing Macports. The binary installer
>> says the installation is failing. The log is available here:
>> 
>> http://dev.inetpro.org/pastebin/888
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest a fix?
> 
> The problem appears to be that your home directory path (/Volumes/Macintosh 
> HD/Users/cjones) contains spaces. We don't appear to have anticipated that. 
> Usually a home directory would just be e.g. /Users/cjones. You appear to have 
> two disks, "Mac System Disk" and "Macintosh HD"; presumably your OS is on Mac 
> System Disk but you want your home directory on Macintosh HD.
> 
> Despite the error message, MacPorts has been successfully installed; you 
> don't need to run the installer again. Because of the problem you do need to 
> manually set up your shell though. See the guide:
> 
> http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.shell.html
> 
> We should fix this in the MacPorts installer. Nevertheless, consider changing 
> your setup so that your home directory path does not contain spaces, for 
> example rename your disk "Macintosh HD" to "MacintoshHD". I suspect there is 
> a fair amount of software out there that will not anticipate your home 
> directory path containing spaces 

I could be wrong but that setup sounds as if it is the SSD + hd iMac setup. If 
it is more and more people will eventually show up with that. I wonder why the 
full path to the home directory is being used and not the short way of ~ 
(though I'm sure there is a good reason why ;)).
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