On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 5, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Watch Dog wrote: > >> On 2012/05/05 10:05, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>> Immediately after running "sudo port selfupdate" with MacPorts 2.0.4 under >>> OS X 10.7.3, I ran "sudo port upgrade outdated". MacPorts proceeded to >>> attempt to update dbus, but it failed: >>> >>> ---> Computing dependencies for dbus >>> ---> Fetching archive for dbus >>> ---> Attempting to fetch dbus-1.4.20_0+startupitem.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2 >>> from http://packages.macports.org/dbus >>> ---> Fetching dbus >>> ---> Attempting to fetch dbus-1.4.20.tar.gz from >>> http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/dbus >>> ---> Attempting to fetch dbus-1.4.20.tar.gz from >>> http://distfiles.macports.org/dbus >>> ---> Verifying checksum(s) for dbus >>> ---> Extracting dbus >>> ---> Applying patches to dbus >>> ---> Configuring dbus >>> ---> Building dbus >>> ---> Staging dbus into destroot >>> ---> Installing dbus @1.4.20_0+startupitem >>> ---> Cleaning dbus >>> ---> Computing dependencies for dbus >>> ---> Deactivating dbus @1.4.18_0 >>> ---> Cleaning dbus >>> ---> Activating dbus @1.4.20_0+startupitem >>> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: could not set owner for file >>> "/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist": no such file or >>> directory >>> >>> Why >> >> Untested fix to an untested commit that never should have been done in >> the first place. > > Why so harsh, it was tested albeit not on older versions of MacPorts.
It was breaking on the current release version (2.04), so apparently was not tested on that version. Testing only on versions not yet in GA is poor practice; hardly counts as testing. The supposed "fix" then uncovered other breakage, indicating that *it* was not tested against current release, either. > >>> and how to fix? > > Did this not fix it? > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34343 > > > Regards, > Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
