Hm... the portion regarding startupitem_type in macports.conf makes it
sound like setting this variable to "none" is the 'big hammer' and
that all portfiles specifying startup items are explicitly overridden.
Is this not true?
On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 26, 2009, at 22:07, Timothy Lee wrote:
It looks like dbus is failing to activate on my setup. I have two
active macport installs (one in /opt/local and one in /tigeropt/
local). I'm very careful to be using the correct paths based on
which version I'm working with. I installed my /opt/local dbus
first and the /tigeropt/local second. In my /tigeropt/local/etc/
macports/macports.conf I have startupitem_type set to 'none'.
This is the output I'm receiving when I try to install the /tiger/
opt dbus:
---> Activating dbus @1.2.12_4+universal
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/
LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist already exists and
does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port dbus.
Warning: the following items did not execute (for dbus):
org.macports.activate
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: dbus jpeg libmng
autoconf help2man gettext libiconv gperf ncurses ncursesw p5-locale-
gettext perl5 perl5.8 m4 automake lcms tiff zlib libtool libpng
mysql5 openssl postgresql83 bison libxml2 libxslt ossp-uuid
readline sqlite3 unixODBC
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
Both copies of the port want to install the same file, /Library/
LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist. This is a startup
item of sorts that Mac OS X looks for at system startup to start a
service. This file cannot be placed in a different directory,
otherwise it will not have any effect. That is why this file's
location is not confined to ${prefix} and why its location is not
configurable. So with the way the dbus port is currently written,
I'm afraid you cannot have it installed and activated simultaneously
in more than one MacPorts install on a single machine.
The same would be true of any port that uses the startupitem
portfile keywords or manually installs launchd plists.
Some such ports offer +no_startupitem variants to turn off the
installation of such files; see e.g. the apache2 port. If that is
appropriate for dbus, such a variant could be added there.
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