On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 01:06:28PM +1000, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, looking for files that seemingly without good cause had > > the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute on them, I noticed that almost > > all (417 out of 425) of the files installed for port libsdl had it on them > > (as well as two files for xephem: /opt/local/share/xephem/auxil/wmm.cof > > and /opt/local/share/xephem/lo/lodb.xml). > > > > That was on a system running Mojave, with not as many ports installed as > > some of my other systems. > > > > On a system running Catalina, in addition to those, I saw the attribute on > > about 155 of the 962 files installed by wxPython-3.0. > > > > Nothing bit me in the eyeballs looking at the Portfile for libsdl, so I > > don't know why this happened. But it happened consistently on at least two > > systems, and I didn't do anything particularly strange installing MacPorts > > on them. But since _most_ ports don't leave that sort of mess around, I'm > > thinking it shouldn't have happened. > > > > AFAIK, it hasn't caused any problems (give or take that extended attributes > > do consume a slight amount of disk space); but all oddities are IMO suspect > > that they might be suggestive of something not being done in the usual or > > correct manner (with the possibility of additional un-noticed > > repercussions), so I thought that having noticed this, I'd mention it. > > For libsdl it would be a side effect of how I generated the distfile. > It's installing a snapshot of the hg repo because there have been a lot > of important fixes since the last release of the 1.2 branch, and the > next release may be a long way off still (if it ever happens; 1.2 is > only kept around to support projects that haven't moved to SDL2). I > re-made the tarball myself because there is no suitable tarball > available from upstream (the hg web interface generates tarballs that > differ depending on when you generate them, and the directory name is > not what MacPorts expects). > > As you say, it shouldn't cause any serious problems, but I'll try to > avoid it in future tarballs. > > - Josh A command like this should fix it: xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine * cheers, raf
