get user's home

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On 5 Aug 2017, at 10:00, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> I don't think there is a good way to do it if the user's home directory must be encoded into the plist. But I suspect that is not the case, and Rainer has mentioned a good alternative in the ticket.

IPFS_PATH sets the path to ipfs' repo for filesystem, web hosting, p2p, cdn, whatever you use it for, and defaults to ~/.ipfs. Since after writing the portfile I realised that the datastore needs to be initialised before loading the daemon anyway, I rather recreate the startup item without the env var and put a note for the user to set it, if need be.

This should be fine (haven't tried yet)

startupitem.create      yes
startupitem.executable  ${prefix}/bin/${name} daemon

I assume it adds

	<key>Disabled</key>
	<true/>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<true/>

but not

	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>

I checked the Daemons and Services Programming Guide, but couldn't find any info on RunAtLoad. It's not clear to me that KeepAlive implies starting after boot.


Go is not required at runtime, I missed that and will put it in depends_build.


Re autocompletion file, is it advised, as suggested in the ticket, to copy it to ${prefix}/share/bash-completion/completions/ipfs instead of another directory like bash_completion.d? I don't know if bash-completion would automatically source such file and if it's not installed it should be sourced from rc anyway. I could use a block like docker-machine's port, although I don't quite grasp what depends_run-append exactly does there.