rpm51: Error: port activate failed: Not a directory

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

rpm51 fails to activate, saying

Error: port activate failed: Not a directory

Probably a problem with whatever it's doing with Python.

This problem causes MacPorts to activate all files in the port, but not register the port as active, so that's quite bad. (All the files are thus orphaned.)

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Sounds more like a MacPorts bug to me ?

DEBUG: Adding file to file_map: /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py for: rpm51
DEBUG: Not a directory
    while executing
"filemap set file_map $file $port"
    (procedure "receipt_flat::register_file" line 11)
    invoked from within
"${macports::registry.format}::register_file $file $port"
    (procedure "registry::register_file" line 3)
    invoked from within
"registry::register_file $file $name"
    (procedure "portimage::activate" line 65)
    invoked from within
"portimage::activate $portname [composite_version $portversion [array get variations]] [array get options]"
Error: port activate failed: Not a directory

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The subpath that is not a directory is:

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5 -> /opt/local/lib/python2.5

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I believe it is considered a deliberate behavior of MacPorts and not a bug. I forget where that discussion took place but perhaps ​Googling "not a directory" would find it. If not, ask macports-dev and I'm sure someone will recall. I see related ticket #17998.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Python 2.5 now installs as a hybrid Framework and library installation.
Changing this now would require a fair amount of effort (see #16334).
Ports like boost and graphviz simply work around it.

Attached is a proposed solution for rmp51.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Cc Me!

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Fixed, r46817.

That MacPorts python's distutils are broken isn't really a RPM problem, though.

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