port registry is not including files created by destroot.keepdirs

[macsforever2000@…]

In the sane-backends port, I created a directory (${prefix}/var/lock) with xinstall -d and added it to destroot.keepdirs. MacPorts created the file .turd_sane-backends so the directory does not get automatically deleted after the destroot phase. But that file does not appear in "port contents sane-backends". Consequently, when the port is uninstalled, the file and the directory remain.

[jmr@…]

You're creating ${prefix}/var/lock but you should be creating ${destroot}${prefix}/var/lock.

[macsforever2000@…]

Sorry, I'm not explaining it very well. See ticket #14978. I am meaning to create ${prefix}/var/lock. In any event, the point is not the directory, but that the registry is not apparently including the hidden file.

[macsforever2000@…]

I see my mistake now. You are correct and the registry does properly see the file when I made the change you suggest!

[toby@…]

Milestone MacPorts base bugs deleted