avahi port installs org.freedesktop.* files

[James Sumners]

I didn't look back at the wiki to verify /System versus /Library. I
just went with what the port was trying to do.

Do you want me to file the report? Or would you like to? Clearly you
have a better understanding of what it should be doing.

On 10/26/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:46, paul beard wrote:
>
> > On 10/26/07, James Sumners 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.
>
> No port (and no other non-Apple software) should ever install
> anything under /System!!!! The port needs to be revised to install
> not in /System/Library but in /Library, and the name of the plist
> should begin with org.macports not org.freedesktop. I don't see
> anything in the portfile that causes this, so it must be the
> project's own Makefile. In this case, a patch will need to be written
> to change the name of the file. In addition, the authors of the avahi
> should be notified to never install anything under /System. Someone
> should file a Trac bug on this and assign and Cc it to the port's
> maintainer.
>
>
>


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