[MacPorts] #47755: Broken symlink left by select code when selected port is deactivated causes poppler and other ports using aclocal to fail during configuration.

[Daniel J. Luke]

> On Jun 23, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
> Goodness that appeared terrifyingly manual.

yes, I believe it predates the destroot support in MacPorts (that change happened right around the time I first started paying attention to the project IIRC, so I don’t really know the history of it that well).

> Now that we have buildbots, I'd hope we consider letting them come up with
> this as an infrastructure matter.

It seems useful - even if a complete db isn’t something that we push to each install, having it online somewhere where it could be queried would be nice.

> On Tue, June 23, 2015 17:28, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> 
>> oh, you mean like contents list?
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/1528/trunk/base/src/port1.0/portregis
>> try.tcl
>> 
>> everything old is new again ;-)
>> 
>> [see also
>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/1748/trunk/base/doc/exampleport/Portf
>> ile and
>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/2241/trunk/base/doc/portstyle.7]
> 

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