ASSP port testing, not getting all perl mods to work

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Jan 23 13:19:51 PST 2009


Scott Haneda wrote:
> port contents p5-mail-spf | grep -v opt
> Port p5-mail-spf contains:
>   /usr/sbin/spfd
> 
> So, how does not resolve this?  And I thought ports expressly prevented
> this, or is this just the port makers job to prevent it?  Since ports
> noticed it, I would think it would have blocked it

It's the job of the portfile author to ensure that it installs its files
to the right place. The base code provides some defaults that make this
easy in many cases.

Some ports legitimately need to install files outside the usual places.
They should be setting 'destroot.violate_mtree yes', but not all of them
do yet, so making mtree violation a hard error would break things at
this point.

- Josh


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