Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

[Barry Scott]

When I run the postinstall as me it works are intended for my .bash_profile.
When I run via sudo it looks at root’s file and states tit does not support the
“sh” shell. I suspect that the environment that postinstall is running in is a
strange in some way. (I have seen Mac specific oddities when developing
python based apps like no LANG env var.)

I will need to debug the postinstall script and to do that I need to be able to
created the .pkg file.

I have cloned macport-base and done:

	./standard-config
	Make

What is the commands you use to create the .pkg?

Barry

> On 29 Jan 2017, at 17:29, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 02:13:12PM +0000, Barry wrote:
>> I have been using the .pkg to reinstall MacPorts. I guess that does
>> not check.
> 
> It does. Specifically, the check checks what your user's shell is using
> 
>  /usr/bin/dscl . -read "/Users/${USER}" shell | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}'
> 
> Supported shells are bash and tcsh. For bash, the installer then runs
> 
>  bash -l -c "/usr/bin/printenv PATH" | grep "/opt/local"
> 
> to determine whether your configuration needs adjusting. For some reason
> this fails in the installer, although we haven't been able to figure out
> why.
> 
> If you'd like to help debug this, that would be very welcome. I've tried
> adding more checks for the 2.4.0 release (like doing nothing if the
> config file to be changed contains 'MacPorts Installer addition'), but
> apparently none of them worked properly in your case.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Clemens
>