On 2009-04-02 16:34, David Osguthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 04:11:14AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Apr 2, 2009, at 04:51, Anand Buddhdev wrote: >> >> Oh yes, understood. But sorry, no, there is no post-uninstall hook. >> There are several ports where this would be useful, but nobody has >> written it yet. >> > > what about the pkg_uninstall hook - this has existed for a long while > - although I see in registry2.0 somebody has commented this section
registry2.0 is not used at the moment, as the original author Chris Pickel (sfiera@) got MIA and we don't know much about the current state. So we will have to figure out how much is working already before it can be included as default. > # pkg_uninstall isn't used anywhere as far as I can tell and I intend to add > > of course it isnt used anywhere - you need to define a pkg_uninstall procedure > in the Portfile > > the other fixup needed is an encoding of the procedure as defined in the > Portfile > before it can be stored in the registry file so that it works after reading > from the registry > - I needed a fixup to the proc_disasm procedure to map \n to \\n in the > procedure body > to get this to work > > append p [string map { \n \\n } [info body $pname] ] > > with this I have had pkg_uninstall working for a few years - unfortunately > the name change > from darwinports to macports made life difficult for me (running on Panther > at the time > and only recently upgrading to Tiger because of features I needed that only > worked > in Panther) and hence had no desire to upgrade that system > - only now with a new machine did I install the new macports Would you still care to send a patch? :-) Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev