A user on macports-users reported this problem, which I can confirm: On May 25, 2007, at 15:03, Valentin Kuznetsov wrote:
When I run portindex I've got 0 errors, but along the output lines I saw:
Error: ==== ATTENTION!!!! ==== Error: Sockstat is not working under darwin 8 nor tiger. Please use Error: lsof -i6/lsof -i4/lsof -U instead. Error: ==== ATTENTION!!!! ====
I also see the message just by typing "port info sockstat", which is likely due to recent changes to "port info": $ port info sockstat Error: ==== ATTENTION!!!! ==== Error: Sockstat is not working under darwin 8 nor tiger. Please use Error: lsof -i6/lsof -i4/lsof -U instead. Error: ==== ATTENTION!!!! ==== Error: Please sudo port uninstall sockstat sockstat 1.6.2.6, sysutils/sockstat (Variants: universal, darwin_8) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/sockstat/? hideattic=0&only_with_tag=RELENG_4_9 The sockstat command lists open Internet or UNIX domain sockets. Current version of sockstat from FreeBSD is written in C while this old version is still in Perl. This program is from FreeBSD's source tree. Platforms: darwin Maintainers: mjhsieh@yahoo.com sysutils/sockstat does this: platform darwin 8 { ui_error "==== ATTENTION!!!! ====" ui_error "Sockstat is not working under darwin 8 nor tiger. Please use" ui_error "lsof -i6/lsof -i4/lsof -U instead." ui_error "==== ATTENTION!!!! ====" ui_error "Please sudo port uninstall sockstat" } I don't think we should be outputting any messages of any kind in platform variants which MacPorts auto-selects, because they get executed at all sorts of times where outputting messages is not appropriate. Instead, I believe the port should do something like this if it wants to output a message: platform darwin 8 {} pre-fetch { if { [variant_isset darwin_8] } { ui_error "==== ATTENTION!!!! ====" ui_error "Sockstat is not working under darwin 8 nor tiger. Please use" ui_error "lsof -i6/lsof -i4/lsof -U instead." ui_error "==== ATTENTION!!!! ====" ui_error "Please sudo port uninstall sockstat" } } I'm also concerned that the port would output a message saying that the port is not compatible with Tiger, yet not prevent installation on Tiger. It should exit after printing that message. Well, the message should be reworded too, since it's not a forgone conclusion that the user already has sockstat installed at the point that they see the message. The user may be trying to install it for the first time, in which case an uninstall is not necessary or possible. Finally, it's not clear why we are preventing the port from installing on 10.4. Will it work on earlier OS versions like 10.3 or 10.2? I assume yes. What about later OS versions like 10.5? I assume no, but I don't know for sure. The port description, or at least a comment in the portfile, should explain this, and if it's expected that the port won't work on 10.5 either, then darwin 9 should be excluded also.