Opened 3 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#63589 assigned defect
base: port select blindly overwrites pre-existing binaries, without warning
| Reported by: | mascguy (Christopher Nielsen) | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | |
| Keywords: | select | Cc: | cooljeanius (Eric Gallager) |
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Description
Per issue:57787, as well as subsequent PR 12501 - go-tools: eliminate conflict with Ruby, it appears that port select blindly overwrites existing binaries, even if they belong to another port.
Given that the rest of MacPorts makes every attempt to avoid such issues, this should be fixed.
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
| Component: | ports → base |
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comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
| Owner: | jmroot deleted |
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comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
| Cc: | cooljeanius added |
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Agreed.
If port select were to simply stop if it encountered an existing file, it would potentially leave the user's system in an inconsistent state with some symlinks having been created and others not. See #58785 for more on that.
Implementing this feature might somehow be helped if port select recorded the symlinks in the registry. See #43996 for more on that.