destroot.violate_mtree doesn't work?

[Julian Dunn]

Thanks - is there any way to not do selfupdate over rsync? My company
firewall doesn't permit egress rsync.

- Julian

>>> Anders F Björklund <afb at macports.org> 10/28/2007 4:44 PM >>>
Julian Dunn wrote:

> I'm still trying to port Amanda (www.amanda.org) to Macports. Amanda

> wants to install its own dumper in /opt/local - not great, but it
does 
> this under FreeBSD too. In order to accommodate this I wanted to
set:
>
> destroot.violate_mtree   yes
>
> per the Macports guide at http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide/. 
> However, 'port' doesn't seem to like this directive:
>
> Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("invalid 
> command name "destroot.violate_mtree"").
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Maybe your version of port is outdated, the Violator wasn't in 1.5.0 
AFAIK ?

--anders