.profile not installed

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Apr 24 12:01:09 PDT 2008


On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Marco Battistella wrote:
>> hi,
>> i have just installed macport in a fresh OS X 10.3.9 server  
>> installation using the 1.6 package installer.
>> After the installation i have noticed that no .profile has been  
>> installed.
>> on the manual it reads:
>> MacPorts requires changes to the shell environment. If MacPorts  
>> was installed using the Mac OS X package installer, a “postflight”  
>> script was run after installation that places a .profile file in  
>> the home directory, which contains the environmental variables  
>> required for MacPorts. If a current .profile file exists at  
>> installation time it is renamed to “mpsaved_$timestamp”.
>
> This is a known bug,
> http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14383

That is marked as a duplicate of this bug:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13742

And that bug is not marked as fixed. Though I thought for sure we had  
fixed this in trunk already.





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