On OS X, plutil masks Apple's plutil
Reported by ryandesign | March 4th, 2013 @ 01:05 PM
Installing libplist 1.8 on OS X causes problems, because libplist provides a program called plutil, which does not work the same way as Apple's program of the same name already installed on OS X. Here is the bug report I sent to the MacPorts maintainer of libplist:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33033
Since he has not responded, I'm trying to figure out how we should handle this. Should we:
- not install libplist's plutil?
- rename libplist's plutil to something else?
Comments and changes to this ticket
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mischi March 4th, 2013 @ 02:06 PM
I am maintaining the fink package and was not aware of the problem. Trying "plist -h" actually brought up "Usage: plistutil ...", which is a nice idea. I will actually do an according rename for the fink package until the next release of libplist, where this is fixed.
MiSchi.
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Martin S. March 5th, 2013 @ 03:07 PM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
- Tag changed from “libplist” to “mac os x, libplist, plutil, tools”
- Assigned user set to “Martin S.”
- Milestone set to “1.2.0 Release”
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Martin S. March 18th, 2013 @ 09:57 AM
- Assigned user changed from “Martin S.” to “Nikias Bassen”
- Milestone cleared.
I think it's ok to rename plutil into plistutil.
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Martin S. March 18th, 2013 @ 03:58 PM
- State changed from “open” to “resolved”
Fixed in git master. The tool is now called "plistutil".
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