port load/unload

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Sat Sep 18 13:08:50 PDT 2010


>> Do we "do the right thing" by not having them use 'sudo' for LaunchAgents on Snow Leopard?
> 
> MacPorts does not make any difference between LaunchDaemons and
> LaunchAgents. The default for startupitem.location is LaunchDaemons and
> I am not aware of any port changing this setting. There are dbus and
> xinit installing LaunchAgents, but those use custom methods/messages.
> 
> It always prints 'sudo' in this message. I am not even sure if the
> command 'port load' works without root privileges...

I think we can add something like:

if {${build.asroot} == "yes"} {
 ui_msg (no newline) "sudo "
}
ui_msg "port load ${name}"
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