macports instal pkg - alert msg

[Eric Gallager]

If there were a `depends_pkg` type of dependency, we could use the
dylibbundler port to do the dylib-rewriting:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/38112



On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:46 AM, <ugajin at talktalk.net> wrote:
>
>> I don't want to distribute, but there is no Mac pkg available for this
>> (latest) version of mypaint. As the earlier version has serious
>> functional deficits (no pressure sensitivity) I am glad to make it
>> available. However, I am not sure how or where to do this. I have
>> posted a note on a mypaint forum. Perhaps someone will tell me.
>>
>
> MacPorts isn't really set up for making packages like this; you would want
> the mpkg target (not pkg; mpkg gets you all the dependencies as well,
> without which the installed package would not work on systems that don't
> have the same dependency ports installed in the same places), and a bunch
> of stuff under /opt/local will be included (meaning people installing it
> will not be able to reliably use MacPorts themselves).
>
> Proper app bundles would relocate the dependencies into the app bundle,
> rewriting dylibs to use the appropriate bundle-local paths and changing any
> other dependencies (e.g. configuration files for dependency libraries) to
> look in the bundle instead of their normal standalone location; MacPorts
> can't help you with this; nor can any other package system.
>
> If you really must use MacPorts to build an Installer package, create a
> separate MacPorts installation containing just the minimal necessary
> packages and rooted somewhere that won't collide with other package systems
> (Fink uses /sw, Homebrew uses /usr/local) or system directories (so putting
> it under e.g. /Library would be a bad idea).
>
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