startupitem issue with unmounted volume (non-default prefix)

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> Maybe we should add something like:
>
>     <key>KeepAlive</key>
>     <dict>
>         <key>PathState</key>
>         <dict>
>             <key>$prefix</key>
>             <true/>
>         </dict>
>     </dict>
>
> to our auto-generated plists? (I /think/ that will make launchd wait until
> $prefix is available, but haven’t tested it yet).
>

The problem is that MacPorts installs the plists themselves as symlinks
under $prefix. They can't be resolved if $prefix hasn't been mounted yet.

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