avahi port installs org.freedesktop.* files

[paul beard]

On 10/26/07, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been wrestling with MacPorts for the past couple days trying to
> get Gnucash updated. During which, I've removed and reinstalled
> MacPorts a couple of times. This time, when building avahi I got this
> error:
>
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist
> already exists and does not belong to a registered port.  Unable to
> activate port avahi.
>
> Investigating this, I found out that avahi installs
> "org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist" and
> "org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd.plist" to
> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Removing these files is not covered in
> the MacPorts uninstall instructions on the wiki. The instruct the user
> to remove /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* . So my
> question is, should avahi install files named as such? Or should it
> install them as "org.macports.avahi-*"?
>

Hmm.

[/Users/paul]:: port provides
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist is provided
by: avahi

Well, that does seem like a reasonable expectation: at first I thought they
may come from you installing from source.

Looks like wiki or the policy needs to be reviewed.
-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
<paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at mac.com>
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