Files installed outside the MacPorts directory?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Oct 11 03:03:43 PDT 2007


On Oct 11, 2007, at 04:22, Hans Mogren wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Oct 11, 2007, at 03:22, Hans Mogren wrote:
>>
>>> paul beard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/10/07, Hans Mogren wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> After installing apache2 (or rather, apache2 +no_startupitem) I
>>>>> got the
>>>>> message that stuff was done outside the MacPorts /opt/local
>>>>> directory.
>>>>> Can I find out exactly what was done?
>>>>
>>>> port contents apache2 should do it.
>>>
>>> I thought so as well, but everything it lists is in /opt/local. So
>>> either
>>> "port contents" doesn't list all files installed or the message was
>>> incorrect. I was hoping for to find out which one it is.
>>
>> Read the message again. It doesn't say stuff was done outside the
>> MacPorts /opt/local directory.
>
> Sorry! Is there a installation log file where I can find and reread  
> the
> output message?

No, there's no log.

I looked in base/src/port1.0/destroot.tcl and it looks like the  
message that should be printed is:

"%s requests to install files outside the common directory structure!"



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