filesystem violation warnings

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Sat Mar 9 13:22:30 PST 2013


On 03/09/2013 01:18 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a new port submission
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38343
>
> that is giving me the warnings
>
> --->  Staging xrootd into destroot
> Warning: violation by /opt/local/man
> Warning: xrootd violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
> Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is intended), it will be an error in future releases!
>
> Unfortunately the above doesn't really tell me exactly whats wrong, or how to fix it. Any pointers ?

$prefix/man is a symlink to share/man, so you need to update the port to 
put the man pages into $prefix/share/man.

Blair



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