ASSP port testing, not getting all perl mods to work

Scott Haneda talklists at newgeo.com
Fri Jan 23 13:54:43 PST 2009


On Jan 23, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

> 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.


Thanks.  Can you point me in the direction on how I solve this so the  
module will work?  I have no idea what to do at this point.
--
Scott



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