.profile not installed; 'ports' command not found

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 08:41, James E Keenan wrote:

> On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> There is a bug in MacPorts 1.6.0 which prevents the .profile from  
>> being created. You'll have to create it yourself. The bug has been  
>> fixed in trunk but we haven't released a new version of MacPorts  
>> since then.
>
> Given that the instructions pertaining to .profile appear very  
> prominently in your documentation, I would suggest that a 1.6.1  
> release be considered.

So much work has gone into MacPorts since 1.6.0 that we may want to  
consider calling the next release 1.7.0.

I assume our release manager just hasn't had time to do a new  
release. I haven't seen many mails from him lately.

> What effect will this happen on my inability to call 'port' yesterday?

If you don't set up your .profile, your PATH environment variable  
doesn't get set properly to include /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/ 
sbin, hence your terminal doesn't know to look there to find the port  
binary. You can either call port by its full pathname /opt/local/bin/ 
port or set up your PATH environment variable.