Macports installer endless loop

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 06:23, dreamcat four wrote:

> I'm writing a chef recipe to download and install macports
> automatically. But when invoked by the chef "execute" methods, its
> stuck in what seems to be an endless loop:
> 
> installer: Running package scripts….....
> #
> installer: Running package scripts….....
> #
> installer: Running package scripts….....
> #
> installer: Running package scripts….....
> #
> 
> 
> I can see a tclsh8.5 process, and 2 rsync processes hanging about.
> 
> I left the command running for a long time and it seemed never to exit.
> Then I switched to using bash, and it still took a very long time.
> But it finally exited.
> 
> This can be a problem for chef if the installer never exits.
> Any ideas?

I have no idea what chef is. :) Is it a scripting language of some kind? If so, can you show us the script that you wrote to do this?