z88 Aurora

Mark Brethen mark.brethen at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 15:10:06 PDT 2014


On Jun 7, 2014, at 3:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Jun 7, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> z88 Aurora is open source finite element software and the installation places files in /opt/local. Before proceeding with the installation, I wanted to check with the users group to see if this will interfere with my macports installation?
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> Yes, that will interfere with MacPorts, unless you have installed MacPorts to a custom prefix that is not /opt/local.
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> Please ask the developers of Z88 to repackage it in a different prefix that is not /opt/local so that it does not interfere with MacPorts. We are pleased that the developers of Z88 were able to use MacPorts in their packaging efforts, but would appreciate it if they would not increase our support burden by distributing software that interferes with MacPorts.
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>> One caveat is that you have to change the ownership of /opt/local to "root:wheel" or "YOURUSERNAME:staff“.
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> You should probably not modify the permissions MacPorts has set  for /opt/local.
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I don't know for certain that the developers used MacPorts, what gave you that impression?

Mark






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