Updated logtalk portfile for version 2.37.5

[pmoura (Paulo Moura)]

Updated logtalk portfile for version 2.37.5

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

logtalk @2.37.3_0 installs fine, but @2.37.5_0 has this complaint:

$ sudo port install logtalk
--->  Computing dependencies for logtalk
--->  Fetching logtalk
--->  Attempting to fetch lgt2375.tar.bz2 from http://logtalk.org/files/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for logtalk
--->  Extracting logtalk
--->  Configuring logtalk
--->  Building logtalk
--->  Staging logtalk into destroot
--->  Installing logtalk @2.37.5_0
--->  Activating logtalk @2.37.5_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/share/mime/aliases already exists and does not belong to a registered port.  Unable to activate port logtalk.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

logtalk @2.37.3_0 seems not to have tried to install anything in /opt/local/share/mime, but @2.37.5_0 does. That directory is already provided by the shared-mime-info port (though for reasons explained (?) in #21093 the files are not registered to the port).

So, the logtalk port should now either inform the logtalk build process not to install ${destroot}${prefix}/share/mime, or if there is no way to tell it not to do that, should delete ${destroot}${prefix}/share/mime in the post-destroot phase. If logtalk really requires those files, then a dependency on the shared-mime-info port should be declared.

[pmoura (Paulo Moura)]

True, there is a dependency on the "shared-mime-info" port should be declared. I will upload an updated patch for the portfile shortly. However, there is also an issue in your testing machine as the error message says that "/opt/local/share/mime/aliases already exists and does not belong to a registered port." Installing the "shared-mime-info" port using MacPorts should clear the error. Logtalk is only touching the "/opt/local/share/mime" because is calling the "update-mime-database" command.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to pmoura@…:

However, there is also an issue in your testing machine as the error message says that "/opt/local/share/mime/aliases already exists and does not belong to a registered port." Installing the "shared-mime-info" port using MacPorts should clear the error.

Well, no, shared-mime-info is already installed, and reinstalling it changes nothing. The stuff in /opt/local/share/mime is installed by but not registered to the shared-mime-info port. I filed this as a bug, but Anthony (who changed the port to behave that way in r33238) said the behavior is intentional.

Logtalk is only touching the "/opt/local/share/mime" because is calling the "update-mime-database" command.

Ok. I'm not familiar with how the MIME database is supposed to function, how updates to that are meant to work. If you can figure it out, great; if not, try asking Anthony or another committer who updated shared-mime-info in the past.

[pmoura (Paulo Moura)]

I use the "update-mime-database" command as advised by the freedesktop.org developers. Thus, now that the dependency is declared in the Logtalk portfile, all should be fine (famous last words ;-). Thanks for your support. Please let me know if any other issue arises when testing the portfile.

[pmoura (Paulo Moura)]

The error "/opt/local/share/mime/aliases already exists and does not belong to a registered port." still occurs with the latest patch I uploaded. Still looking for a solution.

[pmoura (Paulo Moura)]

Just uploaded a new patch that eliminates the error.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks. I committed it in r60438 and r60439, with the minor change that I used tcl commands for filesystem manipulation (copying, making and deleting files and directories).

[pmoura (Paulo Moura)]

Thanks for your support. Appreciated.