-d and ui_msg

[Scott Haneda]

On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> Here is the entire Portfile
>> http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/340087/Drops/06.03.09/Portfile-dea0db16-010530.txt
>
>
> So your ui_msg is inside an if clause inside the post-activate phase:
>
> set assp_base       ${prefix}/var/ASSP
> ...
> post-activate {
> ...
>    if {![file exists ${assp_base}/assp.cfg]} {
>        ui_msg "
> ....
> "
>    }
> }
>
> The only reasons I can see for the message not showing up are 1) the  
> file ${prefix}/var/ASSP/assp.cfg exists, or 2) you are using direct  
> mode instead of image mode and therefore there is no activate phase.


If you look up on the past email a little, I did this:
> ASSP installs to var
> $ls -la /opt/local/var/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 Apr  3 01:34 db
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  admin  374 Jun  2 19:59 macports
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 Apr  3 01:34 run

So not only does assp.cfg not exist, the entire parent directory is  
not there either.  I do not understand direct versus image mode, I  
will look to the docs and see what I can get.

Thank you Ryan.
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