Failed to install cyrus-sasl

[Frederic Soulier]

Hi Ryan

Many Thx. The patch seems to work ok.

On 15 Jul 2007, at 19:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>

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