[macports-base] branch master updated: Honour startupitem.install at activation time

[Joshua Root]

On 2018-4-9 07:55 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2018-04-08 03:26, Joshua Root wrote:
>> Joshua Root (jmroot) pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository macports-base.
>>
>> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/3dde77d7d6c66dbb8fcc1d4b1b4972a2ac8b1947
>>
>> The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
>> new 3dde77d Honour startupitem.install at activation time 3dde77d is described below
>>
>> commit 3dde77d7d6c66dbb8fcc1d4b1b4972a2ac8b1947 Author: Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org>
>> AuthorDate: Sun Apr 8 11:16:22 2018 +1000
>>
>> Honour startupitem.install at activation time When activating files,
>> move plists from /Library/Launch* to ${prefix}/etc/Launch* if the port
>> was built with startupitem_install on but it is currently off, and
>> vice versa in the opposite case.
> Somehow this seems complicated. Wouldn't it be simpler to always ship
> the .plists in ${prefix}/etc/Launch* and only add symlinks in
> /Library/Launch* on activation if startupitem_install allows it?

Not that much simpler, strangely enough.

> But I guess you did it this way to be compatible with older archives?

Indeed. It doesn't matter how startupitem.install was set when the
archives were built, this will DTRT either way.

- Josh