port clean bails on ophcrack (on macports-users)

[Cédric Luthi]

On 27 févr. 07, at 10:27, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:18 PM, Paul Beard wrote:
>
>> --->  Cleaning openvanilla
>> --->  Cleaning openvpn
>> --->  Cleaning openvpn2
>> Error: ophcrack only runs on little-endian machines.
>>
>> I tried to run port clean all and it dies when it gets an error  
>> message on ophcrack. Should this be part of a PPC-based ports tree?
>
> Looks like ophcrack is using exit in the pre-fetch phase, which is  
> bad for certain operations (like 'port clean' and possibly others)  
> as I found a few years back.  I thought there was a discussion on  
> how best to handle these situations, but I sure can't seem to find  
> the email thread in the archives...

This has been posted on the users list.
I'm not sure how this problem should be fixed. Exiting after pre- 
fetch would be stupid as the file should not be downloaded at all on  
a PowerPC Mac.
Bryan mentions an old thread about this subject, can anyone remember  
this ?

Cédric Luthi