avahi port installs org.freedesktop.* files

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 00:22, paul beard wrote:

> On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> The hypothetical "dry run" command already exists anyway: "sudo  
>> port destroot theport" and then look into the port's work/destroot  
>> directory to see what's in there.
>
> Not the same thing at all.
>
> ports contents avahi returns this:
> Port avahi contains:
>   /opt/local/bin/avahi-bookmarks
>   /opt/local/bin/avahi-browse
>   /opt/local/bin/avahi-browse-domains
>   /opt/local/bin/avahi-discover
>   /opt/local/bin/avahi-discover-standalone
>
> This is not the same thing as installing to the destroot and then  
> having to grope around in there.

You don't have to grope much...

cd `port dir foo`/work/destroot
find .


> What I originally said:
>
>> in v1.6 would a sanity check to port, akin to the "dry run"  
>> command I see in various utilities, make sense? Right now we have  
>> "port contents" that spells out a port has installed, but it only  
>> works after the fact.  It has always seemed to be that it should  
>> tell you what's in a port, regardless of whether it has been  
>> installed or not.
>
> may not have been clear but the idea would be that a list of files  
> would be generated *without building anything.*

That's a nice idea, but MacPorts has no way of obtaining the list of  
files without building and destrooting the software.