[46957] trunk/base

ryandesign at macports.org ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Feb 18 02:32:06 PST 2009


Revision: 46957
          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/46957
Author:   ryandesign at macports.org
Date:     2009-02-18 02:32:06 -0800 (Wed, 18 Feb 2009)
Log Message:
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ChangeLog, portutil.tcl: The default MacPorts prefix is /opt/local, not /opt.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/base/ChangeLog
    trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl

Modified: trunk/base/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/base/ChangeLog	2009-02-18 10:22:16 UTC (rev 46956)
+++ trunk/base/ChangeLog	2009-02-18 10:32:06 UTC (rev 46957)
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
       avoid running as root whenever possible. (gsoc08-privileges)
 
     - MacPorts will prompt for the root password if you attempt to install a
-      port into the /opt hierarchy and did not start MacPorts with sudo. It
-      will not do so however until the install stage. The fetch, extract,
+      port into the /opt/local hierarchy and did not start MacPorts with sudo.
+      It will not do so however until the install stage. The fetch, extract,
       patch, configure and build will proceed first under the privileges
       MacPorts is started with. (gsoc08-privileges)
 
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@
       group" will create a macports group. "--with-shared-directory" will let
       let the group specified by "--with-install-group" have full read write
       access to the /opt/local hierarchy. This will allow users who are
-      members of the new macports group to have full write permissions to /opt
-      and its subfolders, and hence to install ports which only affect that
-      hierarchy to install those ports without requiring root privileges. 
+      members of the new macports group to have full write permissions to
+      /opt/local and its subfolders, and hence to install ports which only
+      affect that hierarchy without requiring root privileges.
       (gsoc08-privileges)
 
     - A switch called "--with-no-root-privileges" has been added for use by

Modified: trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl
===================================================================
--- trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl	2009-02-18 10:22:16 UTC (rev 46956)
+++ trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl	2009-02-18 10:32:06 UTC (rev 46957)
@@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@
 		set newsourcepath "$altprefix/[ string range $sourcepath 1 end ]"
 
 		# copy Portfile (and patch files) if not there already
-		# note to maintainers/devs: the original portfile in /opt is ALWAYS the one that will be 
+		# note to maintainers/devs: the original portfile in /opt/local is ALWAYS the one that will be 
 		#	 read by macports. The copying of the portfile is done to preserve the symlink provided
 		#	 historically by macports from the portfile directory to the work directory.
 		#	 It is NOT read by MacPorts.
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