where does macports installs programs?

[Ryan Ware]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>
wrote:

> At 8:07 AM -0700 7/10/14, Ryan Ware wrote:
>
>  On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt <<mailto:
>> ryandesign at macports.org>ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 5:13 AM, Fabrizio Salvatore wrote:
>>
>>   I have wiped the root5 installation and re-installed and for what I can
>>> see the two have the exact same root5 installed.... I was going to
>>> re-install python27 too, but there are a lot of dependencies so it might be
>>> a pretty complicated business... is there a way to do the uninstall without
>>> breaking these dependencies? I am going to check if there is any difference
>>> in the python27 installation first....
>>>
>>>
>> I doubt you need to reinstall python27. In general, if a port installed,
>> it installed successfully. Builds are supposed to be repeatable and not
>> vary based on circumstances.
>>
>>
>> Are there cases where the port can be installed without success?  If so,
>> what are those corner cases?
>>
>> I for one am quite happy that builds are repeatable.  I've lived in
>> environments where builds weren't necessarily repeatable and it
>> was...problematic.
>>
>
> I think he was referring to cases such as where the post-activate step
> fails.  Usually, in such cases, the software is "installed" but some
> configuration step may not have happened.  Eg, a default configuration file
> might not be copied to where it ought to be


Cool.  Makes sense.

Ryan
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