[MacPorts] #33227: postflight fails when home directory is on disk with space in its name (was: Installer reports failure despite postflight report success)

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Sun Feb 12 10:07:47 PST 2012


#33227: postflight fails when home directory is on disk with space in its name
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  Reporter:  freespace+macforge@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
      Type:  defect                        |      Status:  closed                               
  Priority:  Normal                        |   Milestone:                                       
 Component:  base                          |     Version:  2.0.3                                
Resolution:  fixed                         |    Keywords:                                       
      Port:                                |  
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * status:  new => closed
 * cc: ryandesign@… (added)
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 Ok, sorry, I made the wrong assumption. Looking at your log now, first of
 all, the first 2590 lines can be ignored as they concern packages other
 than MacPorts.

 I do see a number of errors, relating to the fact that your home directory
 is not on your startup disk, and the disk that the home directory is on
 has a space in its name ("OS X"). I already fixed this in MacPorts base in
 r84345 but we have not released a new version of MacPorts since then;
 until we do, users should use hard disk names that do not contain spaces.

 Because of this problem, according to the log: "An attempt to backup your
 original configuration file failed! Please set your MacPorts compatible
 environment manually."
 [http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.shell.html Instructions are
 in the Guide].

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