avahi port installs org.freedesktop.* files

[Randall Wood]

This has been fixed in changeset 30458 (http://trac.macosforge.org/ 
projects/macports/changeset/30458) and reported upstream at http:// 
avahi.org/ticket/177

On 26 Oct 2007, at 17:42, James Sumners wrote:

> 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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Randall Wood
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