On Oct 3, 2014, at 6:24 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Friday October 03 2014 16:43:03 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>> It tells me that the file "isn't provided by a port", whatever file I throw 
>>> at it.
>> 
>> Perhaps it's this: "port provides" only responds to the canonical path. So 
>> even on case-insensitive file systems you must use the correct case, and if 
>> your MacPorts prefix is symlinked elsewhere, you must still use the prefix 
>> that MacPorts was originally configured to use.
> 
> I have my MacPorts tree on a case-sensitive partition, with /opt/local a 
> symlink to it. And it doesn't matter whether I use the path with /opt/local 
> or the "normalised" path.
> 
> However, the command *does* work for the files inside KDE appbundles 
> installed in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4 . Go figure why ...

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.macports.devel/26581

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