[33591] branches/release_1_6/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:35, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>> As an added bonus, dscl will work on 10.4 even if the user's  
>>> information isn't stored in netinfo (whereas nicl won't).
>>
>> Does dscl exist and work on 10.3 and earlier too?
>
> I'm not certain (I think so, given 2 below), but there are two  
> points I would make here.
>
> 1. Officially we support the current and previous release of Mac OS  
> X, so 10.3 isn't really a target anymore (and having the automatic  
> path setup not work on 10.3 isn't enough to block usage there -  
> people can still set up $PATH manually like they had to with older  
> releases).
>
> 2. MacPorts base already uses dscl (see portutil.tcl)

Chris tested on 10.3 and it works:


On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:06, Chris Janton wrote:

> face at x:face:122 $ sw_vers
> ProductName:    Mac OS X Server
> ProductVersion: 10.3.9
> BuildVersion:   7W98
> face at x:face:123 $ dscl . -read /users/$USER shell
> shell: /bin/bash
> face at x:face:124 $ which dscl
> /usr/bin/dscl
> face at x:face:125 $


If we can support 10.3 without too much additional effort, we should.  
In this case, we can use dscl on 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 so no additional  
effort is required.