removing paths from sandbox

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Jan 29 09:39:55 PST 2014


On 2014-1-30 04:21 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> Is there documentation on removing paths from the MacPorts sandbox so that files in prefix can be excluded?
> 
> Some software cannot be built when the software is currently installed so I would like to remove port access to certain files/directories in prefix.

Denying read access to files likely won't give you the result you want;
for example:
<https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2012-September/020542.html>

Pretending that the files don't exist is what trace mode does.

- Josh


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