-d and ui_msg

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 3, 2009, at 16:26, Scott Haneda wrote:

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

Ah yes, so it is.

> I do not understand direct versus image mode, I will look to the  
> docs and see what I can get.

The short of it is to check your /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf.

If it says

portinstalltype		image

it should be fine. If it says

portinstalltype		direct

that could explain the activation phase being skipped.