On Feb 27, 2013, at 03:05, Jan Stary wrote: > While looking at various package's notes > (during the ongoing install notes debate), > I noticed a port with the following notes: > > virtuoso has the following notes: > Disable antivirus when building this port. > > Arguably, it is not of much use to the user > displaying this note _after_ the port has > been installed.
True, and that issue was brought up a year ago in this ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33332 And as a result the port was modified to also display these notes between the configure and build phases, where it hopefully will do some good: https://trac.macports.org/changeset/90136 Users can also of course call up the notes at any time by typing "port notes virtuoso". > How do we generally deal with such a situation? > Surely the user is not supposed to play catch > with port(1)'s output. Should the port build > exit/pause with this note? Should the port > job recognize notes that need to displayed > _before_ the build even starts, display them > up front and pause? > > BTW, why does the virtuoso port need > to have "the antivirus" dissabled? > (Whichever antivirus it may be.) The message was added to the port in r88409, and it would have been nice if the commit message had provided a pointer to a ticket explaining what the problem was. But a little research shows the problem was that virtuoso insists on running its test suite after the build, and the test suite tries to start a network server and then connect to it, and Sophos antivirus was blocking that network connection from being established, which resulted in the port build hanging forever. Here are the tickets: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25573 http://trac.macports.org/ticket/29584 http://trac.macports.org/ticket/30981 The notes could be modified to explain the problem better. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
