pre- & post-(de)activate?

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-7-7 15:40 , Michael Dickens wrote:
> I think I've worked out most of the issues with my local qt4-mac
> Portfile; all the variants are now installing & tweaking the select file
> correctly.  I will do a little more testing tomorrow morning, and if all
> goes well I'll check in the change tomorrow evening.
> 
> During these tests, I realized that it would be convenient to make use
> of "post-activate" and "pre-deactivate" for the purposes of handling
> whether or not this port is selected; from the code in
> base/src/port1.0/*.tcl it looks like these phases should work if
> specified in the Portfile.
> 
> When I do "sudo port install qt4-mac", the "post-activate" phase
> executes correctly & determines if 'qt4_select' already has a port
> selected & if not then it selects this port; if something is already
> selected, then it just prints out a message to the user with its
> findings & how to select this port.
> 
> What I'd like now is to use "pre-deactivate" to check to see if this
> port is selected & if so select 'none' and print a message warning the
> user ... but my "pre-deactivate" phase isn't executed when I do "sudo
> port deactivate qt4-mac".  And, after deactivating qt4-mac, if I do
> "sudo port activate qt4-mac" my "post-activate" phase is no longer
> called -- ideally it would be called for either type of "activate".
> 
> What am I not getting?  Thanks! - MLD

Sounds like you're using the flat registry format, which doesn't store
portfiles and so can't run these procedures.

- Josh