[MacPorts] #28193: smartmontools 5.40_3 cannot be loaded

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#28193: smartmontools 5.40_3 cannot be loaded
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  Reporter:  vinc17@…             |       Owner:  toby@…           
      Type:  defect               |      Status:  reopened         
  Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:                   
 Component:  ports                |     Version:  1.9.2            
Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  tiger            
      Port:  smartmontools        |  
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Comment(by vinc17@…):

 Replying to [comment:6 jmr@…]:
 > If it's not a bug, why is there a ticket?

 Because launchctl succeeds (I can check it by running it manually), while
 MacPorts assume that it failed.

 > Seriously, it's probably just Tcl interpreting writing to stderr as
 failure.

 Wow! If it is does that, it is really broken. Warnings and non-fatal error
 messages can be written to stderr. Fatal errors can be checked by looking
 at the exit status of the command (some non-zero exit status of some
 commands can be non-fatal, as described by the documentation, but a zero
 status always means OK).

 > Really not a big deal. By "Tiger bug", I assume Toby means "bug that
 only affects Tiger". In any case, there's nothing he can do about it in
 smartmontools. (Even if there was, he's still allowed to decide not to fix
 it…)

 The fix is easy: look at the exit status.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28193#comment:7>
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