Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #61813


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Dec 12, 2020, 4:09:22 PM (4 years ago)
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mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
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  • Ticket #61813

    • Property Summary changed from macports base: faulty symbolic links should be flagged, perhaps by rev-upgrade to macports base: faulty symbolic links should be flagged

  • Ticket #61813 – Description

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    11As part of my routine port upgrade workflow, `symlinks -t -r /opt` is run to identify faulty symbolic links. And this has uncovered a not-insignificant number of ports with this issue.
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    3 It would be ideal if faulty links were identified and flagged by MacPorts itself. (Even if it's simply a matter of executing `symlinks` in test mode, and filtering the output.)
     3It would be ideal if faulty links were identified and flagged by MacPorts, during port installation.
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     5Near-term, perhaps we could add "Have you run `symlinks -t -r ${prefix}` ?" to the list of items in the pull request form?