Failed to install cyrus-sasl

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 15, 2007, at 06:22, Frederic Soulier wrote:

> I installed MacPorts 1.5.0 yesterday and proceeded to install KDE  
> (after a selfupdate)
>
> After first it couldn't install the cyrus-sasl package because  
> trying to access http://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/ was  
> failing.
>
> This morning it can download the package yet fails with the following:
>
> DEBUG: installing file: /opt/local/var/macports/software/cyrus- 
> sasl2/2.1.21_0+kerberos darwin/opt/local/var/state/ 
> saslauthd/.turd_cyrus-sasl2
> usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
>        mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
> Error: Target org.macports.install returned: shell command "mv /opt/ 
> local/var/macports/receipts/cyrus-sasl2/2.1.21_0+kerberos darwin/ 
> receipt.tmp /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/cyrus-sasl2/2.1.21_0 
> +kerberos darwin/receipt" returned error 64
> Command output: usage: mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target
>        mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory
>
> Warning: the following items did not execute (for cyrus-sasl2):  
> org.macports.activate org.macports.install
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> What am I supposed to do?

This has been reported before:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-June/ 
003919.html

Apparently a bug has been introduced in a recent version of MacPorts,  
because this used to work:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-June/ 
003932.html

There are not many portfiles that use this syntax:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-June/ 
003935.html

Our options are to find and fix the bug in MacPorts, or work around  
it in the few affected portfiles, since the syntax is uncommon.

There's already a bug reported for this port:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12279

I'll attach a patch for a workaround there.