Follow up re: Installation issues, Leopard Quad G5, 1.6.0 DMG

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 14:42, Alex Zavatone wrote:

> On Mar 11, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Adrian Nier wrote:
>
>> you need to create a missing file or give the full path to the port
>> executable. The latter solution means that you have to enter the
>> following on the command line:
>>
>> sudo /opt/local/bin/port -d selfupdate
>
> Ok, I rebooted and that worked.  Cool.
>
>> The better solution is to create a file called '.profile' in your
>> home directory. In this file you specify additional directories that
>> are to be scanned for executables and manual entries. The MacPorts
>> installation fails to create this file, so you have to create it
>> manually.
>
> Awesome.  Works like a charm on my other mac.  Why doesn't the .DMG
> installer do this?
>
> No "non compiler friendly" user is going to be able to get up and
> running without this information.

There is a bug in the 1.6.0 dmg installer with the creation of  
the .profile file, which has already been fixed in trunk, but we have  
not yet released the new version. I believe our release manager is a  
bit busy with other tasks and hasn't had the time to make a new release.