[36148] trunk/dports/aqua/dnsupdate/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:55 AM, jmr at macports.org wrote:

> Revision: 36148
>           http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/36148
> Author:   jmr at macports.org
> Date:     2008-04-19 06:55:13 -0700 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008)
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> dnsupdate: avoid symlink creation failure
>
> Modified Paths:
> --------------
>     trunk/dports/aqua/dnsupdate/Portfile
>
> Modified: trunk/dports/aqua/dnsupdate/Portfile
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/dports/aqua/dnsupdate/Portfile	2008-04-19 12:16:32 UTC  
> (rev 36147)
> +++ trunk/dports/aqua/dnsupdate/Portfile	2008-04-19 13:55:13 UTC  
> (rev 36148)
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
>  	xinstall -d -m 0755 ${destroot}${itemPath}
>  	xinstall -d -m 0755 ${itemAliasPath}
>  	xinstall -m 0755 ${worksrcpath}/org.dnsupdate.daemon.plist $ 
> {destroot}${itemPath}/${itemName}
> -	file link -symbolic ${itemAliasPath}/${itemName} ${itemPath}/$ 
> {itemName}
> +	system "ln -s ${itemPath}/${itemName} ${itemAliasPath}/${itemName}"

Could you explain in more detail what's going on with this change? I  
would think we would want to be using the tcl "ln" procedure, not  
calling out to a shell command with system, so I'm interested in why  
you decided to change *to* using system.