avahi port installs org.freedesktop.* files

[Randall Wood]

On 28 Oct 2007, at 12:37, James Sumners wrote:

> Excellent. I suppose we will have to manually remove the old files  
> next upgrade?

I'll write something into the Portfile to take care of this.

> On 10/28/07, Randall Wood <rhwood at mac.com> wrote:
>> This has been fixed in changeset 30458 (http://trac.macosforge.org/
>> projects/macports/changeset/30458) and reported upstream at http://
>> avahi.org/ticket/177
>>
>> On 26 Oct 2007, at 17:42, James Sumners wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't look back at the wiki to verify /System versus /Library. I
>>> just went with what the port was trying to do.
>>>
>>> Do you want me to file the report? Or would you like to? Clearly you
>>> have a better understanding of what it should be doing.
>>>
>>> On 10/26/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:46, paul beard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10/26/07, James Sumners wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been wrestling with MacPorts for the past couple days
>>>>>> trying to
>>>>>> get Gnucash updated. During which, I've removed and reinstalled
>>>>>> MacPorts a couple of times. This time, when building avahi I got
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
>>>>>> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist
>>>>>> already exists and does not belong to a registered port.   
>>>>>> Unable to
>>>>>> activate port avahi.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Investigating this, I found out that avahi installs
>>>>>> "org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist" and
>>>>>> "org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd.plist" to
>>>>>> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Removing these files is not
>>>>>> covered in
>>>>>> the MacPorts uninstall instructions on the wiki. The instruct the
>>>>>> user
>>>>>> to remove /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* . So my
>>>>>> question is, should avahi install files named as such? Or  
>>>>>> should it
>>>>>> install them as " org.macports.avahi-*"?
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm.
>>>>>
>>>>> [/Users/paul]:: port provides /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
>>>>> org.freedesktop.avahi- daemon.plist
>>>>> /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi- 
>>>>> daemon.plist is
>>>>> provided by: avahi
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, that does seem like a reasonable expectation: at first I
>>>>> thought they may come from you installing from source.
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like wiki or the policy needs to be reviewed.
>>>>
>>>> No port (and no other non-Apple software) should ever install
>>>> anything under /System!!!! The port needs to be revised to install
>>>> not in /System/Library but in /Library, and the name of the plist
>>>> should begin with org.macports not org.freedesktop. I don't see
>>>> anything in the portfile that causes this, so it must be the
>>>> project's own Makefile. In this case, a patch will need to be  
>>>> written
>>>> to change the name of the file. In addition, the authors of the  
>>>> avahi
>>>> should be notified to never install anything under /System. Someone
>>>> should file a Trac bug on this and assign and Cc it to the port's
>>>> maintainer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Randall Wood
>> rhwood at mac.com
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>>
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>> All the
>> rest is just philosophy."
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
> CH:D 59
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Randall Wood
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http://shyramblings.blogspot.com

"The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.  
All the
rest is just philosophy."