cleaning up

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jan 12 11:49:42 PST 2010


On 2010-1-13 06:36 , Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-1-13 02:33 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Quoting Joshua Root:
>>
>>> On 2010-1-12 10:40 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to see
>>>> port keep track of these renames in a registry.
>>>
>>> It does if the renamed files belong to a port.
>>
>> It has been my experience that using "sudo port -f activate" will move
>> any conflicting files out of the way, renaming them with a
>> .mp_${timestamp} suffix, and that these renamed files are not registered
>> to any port nor tracked anywhere, and are left for the user to remove
>> manually.
> 
> <http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/registry1.0/portimage.tcl#L330>

But you're right, the check there is incorrect. Fixed in r62631.
Apparently it's been broken since r7620 and nobody noticed...

- Josh


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