Issue with mirroring gnutls source files

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 2, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> On Jul 2, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>> For some reason my MacPorts installed ports don't stay loaded with `port load foo` on that machine (ie, when I reboot squid3 doesn't start up unless/until I do another `port load squid3`). I haven't had time to investigate why (yet).
>>> 
>>> It wouldn't be (much) of an issue either, but I've been seeing a (widely reported) tcp stack bug on Mavericks which means I end up rebooting that machine way more often than I normally would have to.
>> 
>> Is your MacPorts prefix on a different volume than your OS X startup volume? That's apparently a problem now, in that launchd tries to load the plist before the volume that the plist is on has been mounted.
> 
> yes, that's most likely the issue. I haven't bothered to copy the files over (or make my own launchd plists) to verify yet.

We discussed this issue on the list some weeks back and there may be a way we could modify the way MacPorts generates the plists to overcome this problem but I haven't had time to try it out yet.