Opened 7 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#55327 closed defect (fixed)
coreutils conflicts with gegl-devel
| Reported by: | mf2k (Frank Schima) | Owned by: | dbevans (David B. Evans) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | coreutils gegl-devel |
Description
---> Activating gegl-devel @0.3.23-20171114_0+x11 Error: port activate failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/gcut is being used by the active coreutils port. Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate gegl-devel' to force the activation.
I would like to install both at the same time so I can install gimp. Can one of the ports rename or move the file?
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by Liontooth (David Liontooth)
comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)
How about simply renaming all of them?
Change:
configure.args --disable-silent-rules \
--program-prefix=g
To:
configure.args --disable-silent-rules \
--program-prefix=gnu
comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)
OK, so switching the prefix for all of the utils to gnu is not a good idea. For example, the port xmlto points to programs installed by coreutils by name.
comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by DanHam (Dan)
| Resolution: | fixed |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
Unfortunately the fix implemented above had a small bug in it. Instead of just renaming the binary, the symlink under /opt/local/libexec/gnubin was renamed to gnucut as well.
This means that users with /opt/local/libexec/gnubin at the head of their path are actually running the BSD version when they execute cut (/usr/bin/cut) rather than the GNU version as intended.
The fix is to change the name of the symlink back to cut. I've submitted a PR to make the proposed change. To summarise the fix means we will have the binary installed at /opt/local/bin/gnucut and a symlink pointing to the binary at /opt/local/libexec/gnubin/cut.
comment:6 Changed 6 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)
comment:7 Changed 6 years ago by DanHam <DanHam@…>
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
Since /opt/local/bin/gcut is a placeholder name remapped to /opt/local/libexec/gnubin/cut, how about renaming /opt/local/bin/gcut /opt/local/bin/gnucut?
It messes up the simple renaming rule for coreutils in macports, but for users who include /opt/local/libexec/gnubin/ in their $PATH, this change would be invisible.
Renaming gegl's gcut is more problematic, since this is a standard name.