MacPorts 2.3.2 and "port provides"

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Sun Oct 19 01:53:14 PDT 2014


Hi,

----- On 19 Oct, 2014, at 02:22, Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org wrote:

> MacPorts should be in /opt/local, not /private/opt/local.
> 
> Is it possible that /opt is a symlink to /private/opt? Ancient versions of the
> Cisco VPN installer were known to have moved /opt to /private/opt, then placed
> a symlink at /opt.

I've suggested a simple addition to port provides in
  https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2014-October/036559.html
that would fix problems like these where MacPorts' prefix contains a symlink. We
should implement that.

-- 
Clemens Lang


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