Small bug in John the Ripper Port

[jmpalaciosp@…]

There's a small bug in the John the Ripper port, regarding the symlinking of the binary to the /opt/ local/bin location. Instead of explaining it again, I'll quote myself from a message that was sent to the darwinports@… mailing list:

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Hi all, apparently there's a small bug in the John the Ripper port. As I was checking my /opt/

local/bin directory I noticed the john "binary" was a link pointing to '/usr/local/darwinports/ dports/sysutils/john/work/destroot/opt/local/share/john/run/john', which obviously breaks after a 'port clean john'. What I think is happening is that the link is created from $PREFIX/bin/john to where the software is built, rather than to where it will ultimately reside, which is /opt/local/share/ run/john.

This is how it was in my box, though I cannot recall if I moved things around causing the

linking to break. An easy one to fix locally, but I still thought about getting the word out. Hope everyone had a good New Year's celebration!

Juan

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After some digging around, I found the following line in the Portfile, which I believe is causing the faulty link:

system "ln -s ${destroot}${prefix}/share/john/run/john ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/john"

That resides just below the 'destroot' stage of the Portfile. Hope that helps get this fixed...

Juan.

[tp62@…]

patch fixing ln -s call

[toby@…]

Committed fix. Bad, bad yeled!