All is better now with destroot.violate_mtree under MacPorts 1.5.2, so I'm requesting that someone commit Trac #12756. - Julian -- -- Julian C. Dunn, P.Eng. <Julian_Dunn@cbc.ca> -- Analyst, Media Production Support, CBC Technology -- Digital Programming and Business Development -- Office: 2C310-N * Tel.: (416) 205-3311 x6988

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Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> 10/29/07 1:40 AM >>>

On Oct 29, 2007, at 00:33, Julian Dunn wrote:

Anders F Björklund wrote:

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I'm still trying to port Amanda (www.amanda.org) to Macports. Amanda wants to install its own dumper in /opt/local - not great, but it does this under FreeBSD too. In order to accommodate this I wanted to set:

destroot.violate_mtree yes

per the Macports guide at http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide/. However, 'port' doesn't seem to like this directive:

Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("invalid command name "destroot.violate_mtree"").

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Maybe your version of port is outdated, the Violator wasn't in 1.5.0 AFAIK ?

Thanks - is there any way to not do selfupdate over rsync? My company firewall doesn't permit egress rsync.

If you can't use selfupdate (which only works over rsync), you'll have to download the source and build it yourself, each time MacPorts base is updated. The 1.5.2 source is here: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/distfiles/MacPorts Download it, decompress it, and run ./configure, make and sudo make install in the decompressed directory.