[MacPorts] #37153: Installing SMBup overwrites MacPorts files

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#37153: Installing SMBup overwrites MacPorts files
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  Reporter:  cdenman@…  |      Owner:  ryandesign@…
      Type:  defect     |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal     |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports      |    Version:  2.1.2
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Comment (by eduo@…):

 Hello.

 I feel I should add a note, should this popup in the future.

 Indeed, one of the ideas behind the way SMBUp installs stuff is to mimic
 Macports' paths so it's possible to force upgrades on it and keep SMBUp
 working. It installs the same dependencies as samba for macports at the
 time the installer was created (and warns the users it'll do so, since it
 actually works if Macports Samba is installed already and mentions
 MacPorts already exists if it's the case).

 It's also because all tutorials on the internet pointed to macports so by
 doing this paths for more advanced set-ups and tutorials still worked.

 So, the idea was to use the same paths as used by all tutorials out there
 for Samba installations on Lion and do so in a way that allowed easy
 recovery or updates (with --force) with macports.

 Newer versions (not yet released) actually change the default path and
 allow the user to define their own (being able to define MacPorts' but not
 using it any more by default), since although this was never a problem
 (until this thread was brought to my attention, that is) there was always
 the possibility of this confusion.

 I have had for a year a mail ready for any support question that mentions
 MacPorts problems indicating, precisely, how to force clean and install
 the various libraries.

 I apologize for not seeing this thread on time to comment on it. I try to
 keep up but somehow I missed it and didn't know about it until today (I
 had a mail from cdenman I sadly couldn't attend to until today).

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/37153#comment:13>
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