reasons for `port provides` not working?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Oct 10 09:34:26 PDT 2016


On 2016-10-10 18:05, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Is there a good reason why action_provides (in port) does a `file normalize`? Wouldn't it be just as OK if the actual registry lookup (after doing all checks) used the original $filename?

file normalize is used to support relative paths and paths containing
"../" components.

Rainer


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