RFP: AppleJack from Kristofer Widholm (GNU GPL licensed)

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sat Jul 17 13:11:16 PDT 2010


On 2010-07-16 19:18 , Scott C. Kennedy wrote:
>  But, would this not conflict with the layout of the ports-file system?
> As in you'd get this error every time you installed or updated.
> 
>     Warning: violation by /var/root/.profile 
>     Warning: violation by /var/root/Library/Scripts/applejack.sh
>     Warning: applejack violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
>     Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is intended), it will be an error in future releases!
> 
> And eventually, as alluded to in the warning, this port would break?

A violation in /var/root does not look like this is intended. I guess
the build phase wrote to the home of the user running the build, so this
will not be a reliable path. It would make more sense to provide the
applejack.sh at a place where any user can access it, not only one user.

Rainer


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