port clean bails on ophcrack (on macports-users)

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:50 AM, Cédric Luthi wrote:

> 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 ?
>

There was this thread I finally found:

<http://opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2006-March/032565.html>

though it seems nothing came of it.  The xorg port still uses exit,  
just like you do (exit in pre-fetch), so I'm not sure if it would  
experience the same issues.

The time I ran into this was from bug 1449,

<http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/1449>

and I simply removed the exit, though it was in 'variant darwin'  
instead of pre-fetch.

Bryan


> Cédric Luthi
>