portindex output depends on the locales

2007-02-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, The output of the portindex commands depends on whether the character set is UTF-8 or, e.g., ISO-8859-1, due to non-ASCII characters in a description: the number after the port name seems to contain the number of characters instead of the number of bytes. For instance, I get:

Re: Spacing issues

2007-02-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-09 11:39:20 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I assume that's due to the stupid setting available in emacs or vi or whatever editor it is that actually encourages that behavior. The one where they've said We want to indent to 4-space tabs. However, the editor is configured to print 8

Re: Spacing issues

2007-02-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-12 23:21:45 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 10, 2007, at 20:58, Vincent Lefevre wrote: A mix of tabs and spaces is bad since it won't look right in diffs, for instance. What do you mean, won't look right in diffs? Bad indentation, making the diff less readable. What do you

Re: A 1.4 release

2007-02-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-13 13:25:23 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/5275 As I said in my comment to this, I don't see much added value to a portindex(1) man page, users shouldn't see themselves in the need of indexing manually. And those who

Re: remove p5-math-bigint port?

2007-02-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-24 10:50:32 -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Feb 24, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: It is version 1.77. The version provided by the p5-math-bigint port is 1.73 only. Is there a reason to keep such a port that is not up-to-date and that will never be used because perl first

Re: Why -O and -g in universal variants?

2007-02-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-25 11:12:48 -0500, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote: Peering into the minds of Apple's documentation writers (I know, my eyes will be burned), there may be a reason for this. -O turns on optimization. The default is -O0 (no optimization), and there are libraries that actually fail

Re: [22274] trunk/dports/sysutils/file/Portfile

2007-02-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-25 04:54:29 +0100, Elias Pipping wrote: assuming you already have the port, updated. compare the output of /opt/local/bin/gfile /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/ libncurses.5.4.dylib and /usr/bin/file /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/lib/libncurses.

Re: Default +universal variant for configure-based ports

2007-02-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-02-27 22:42:42 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Well my disk is full, and I wouldn't have a clue how to use the debugging info even if it were there, so I don't want it. So how do we make the presence or absence of -g configurable globally per user? Note that even if there isn't a global

Messages with non-ASCII characters displayed with UTF-8 sequences

2007-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
For those who are in non-UTF-8 locales and use non-English locales (with messages containing non-ASCII characters, such as accented characters) and wonder if something gets wrong with these messages: On my machine, all these messages suddenly appeared with undecoded UTF-8 sequences, and I took me

Re: One commit = one change

2007-03-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-05 19:27:05 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: For example, if you want to change the indentation of the file, do only that, then commit it, with a log message that says you're changing the whitespace. Some changes will also change the indentation as a consequence (well, perhaps more

Problem with uninstall/upgrade

2007-03-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The following problem occurs with both the old version and 1.4 rc2: prunille:~ sudo port -v uninstall m4 @1.4.8b_1 Error: port uninstall failed: Registry error: m4 1.4.8b_1 not registered as installed. prunille:~ sudo port -v upgrade m4 --- Activating m4 1.4.8b_1+with_default_names Error:

Re: Problem with uninstall/upgrade

2007-03-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-15 15:52:51 -0400, Kevin Ballard wrote: The full spec for that installation is @1.4.8b_1+with_default_names. Try using that in the uninstall. Hmm... yes. It would be nive to accept @1.4.8b_1 too when there's no ambiguity. -- Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Web:

emacs-devel and build flags (was: [22884] trunk/dports/editors/emacs-devel/Portfile)

2007-03-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-17 13:00:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revision: 22884 http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/22884 Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007-03-17 13:00:49 -0700 (Sat, 17 Mar 2007) Log Message: --- * cleanup Modified Paths:

Re: malloc

2007-03-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-20 03:46:42 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Yves de Champlain wrote: However, configure will always fail looking for malloc.h, so wouldn't it be a good idea to have macports install a dummy malloc.h ? I personally don't think this is a good

lftp upgrade fails (Variant ssl conflicts with tls)

2007-03-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
$ sudo port -v upgrade lftp Error: Variant ssl conflicts with tls Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 $ port installed lftp The following ports are currently installed: lftp @3.5.6_0+tls (active) Even though ssl is the default variant, I don't think this is a correct behavior for upgrade. I think

Re: Configure flags and universal variants

2007-03-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-28 13:05:23 +0200, Elias Pipping wrote: On Mar 28, 2007, at 3:35 AM, Paul Guyot wrote: It would be great if this could be tested more and released as soon as possible: - it would allow maintainers to work on universal variants - it would allow us to simplify many portfiles by

Re: lynx port

2007-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-30 09:10:35 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: The macports change to always add -I and -L options isn't in a release version (yet). We should probably think about it some more and do lots of testing to make sure that it won't break many (any?) ports. That's a reason why I think that

Re: lynx port

2007-03-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-31 03:34:50 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: With CFLAGS, LDFLAGS and friends, we have to be careful not to overwrite but merely to append, in case some things are already defined in those variables. For example, CFLAGS by default includes -O2; if we overwrite CFLAGS we've just

Re: MacPorts v1.4.0 release announcement

2007-04-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-05 12:26:10 -0700, James Berry wrote: The MacPorts project is pleased to announce the release of MacPorts v1.4.0. Change log is at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/tags/release_1_4_0/base/ChangeLog. Downloads are available at

Re: MacPorts v1.4.0 release announcement

2007-04-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-05 16:49:38 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: The problem IIRC has to do with mismatched headers and library. Yes, probably because the Makefile is incorrect. So you'll want to do locate readline.h and see if there's a stray one (in /usr/local/include, probably) that's

Re: MacPorts v1.4.0 release announcement

2007-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-06 09:31:56 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Apr 5, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-04-05 16:49:38 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: The problem IIRC has to do with mismatched headers and library. Yes, probably because the Makefile is incorrect. It is? Do you

Re: MacPorts v1.4.0 release announcement

2007-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-06 16:37:09 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-04-06 09:31:56 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Apr 5, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-04-05 16:49:38 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: The problem IIRC has to do with mismatched headers and library. Yes

Re: MacPorts v1.4.0 release announcement

2007-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-06 10:55:20 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Apr 6, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: For some reason, CURL_CONFIG seems to be set to /usr/bin/curl-config, though which curl-config outputs /opt/local/bin/curl-config (that's a bug since it can lead to inconsistent paths

Re: readline issue

2007-04-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-04-08 13:14:42 +0900, Paul Guyot wrote: We cannot simply autoconf for readline for the following reasons: (a) readline comes with two incompatible APIs. (b) Apple's gcc reads /usr/local/include before /usr/include This is the case under Linux, but I thought it wasn't under Mac OS X

Re: selfupdate is broken

2007-05-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-10 15:55:53 -0700, James Berry wrote: On May 10, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: It seems that selfupdate got broken: prunille:~ sudo port -d selfupdate DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed. Synchronizing from file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports DEBUG

Re: selfupdate is broken

2007-05-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-10 17:41:57 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On May 10, 2007, at 09:44, Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...] file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports file:///Users/vinc17/software/dports rsync://rsync.macports.org/dpupdate/dports But I use this for port installation only. According to the change

Re: selfupdate is broken

2007-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-15 15:20:59 -0400, Kevin Ballard wrote: Here's a possible solution - in $prefix/etc/ports/sources.conf, we could have a [nosync] directive after a source to tell dportsync not to sync it. Would that work for you? It would be a good idea (in addition to the permission test). --

Re: selfupdate is broken

2007-05-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-15 15:25:29 -0400, Kevin Ballard wrote: BTW, I've already fixed this particular issue in trunk. Port will now run svn as the user who owns the WC. This doesn't work here: Synchronizing from file:///Users/vinc17/wd/macosx/dports Password: It shouldn't ask any password (I have a

Re: Fwd: [25313] trunk/dports/shells/zsh-devel

2007-05-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-18 22:14:05 +0200, N_Ox wrote: I've yet another time forgot to reply to all~~ Well, this mail is not for nothing: i'm pleased to tell you i've fixed this problem by making a soelim(1) system call. Great! By the way, I'll add an 'examples' variant before commiting it — well,

Can't upgrade python24

2007-05-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I want to upgrade to python24 @2.4.4_1, but I get the following error: prunille:~ sudo port -v -d upgrade python24 DEBUG: Found port in file:///Users/vinc17/software/dports/lang/python24 DEBUG: Found port in

Re: Is anyone else having trouble logging into Trac on MacPorts?

2007-05-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-24 16:50:28 +1000, Boey Maun Suang wrote: I'm having problems that I haven't seen before while trying to log onto Trac. My attempts to do so over https just resulted in repeated requests for my username and password, while doing so over http resulted in: Login to trac failed!

dependency bug?

2007-06-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
prunille:~ sudo port -v -d uninstall docbook-xml-412 DEBUG: scrollkeeper depends on this port DEBUG: scrollkeeper depends on this port --- Unable to uninstall docbook-xml-412 4.1.2_0, the following ports depend on it: ---scrollkeeper ---scrollkeeper DEBUG: Please uninstall the ports that

Re: dependency bug?

2007-06-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-06-04 21:49:31 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 4, 2007, at 21:14, Vincent Lefevre wrote: prunille:~ port info scrollkeeper Warning: Found 2 port scrollkeeper definitions, displaying first one. I don't have that message when I port info scrollkeeper. Maybe you have a local copy

Re: livecheck my ports (was: Re: universal syntax like livecheck?)

2007-06-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-06-14 03:29:28 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: $ port livecheck maintainer:ryandesign Error: Unable to execute port: /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_graphics_ImageMagick/work/.darwinports.ImageMagick.state is not writable - check permission on port

Re: How to see just mtree violations?

2007-08-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-20 03:36:38 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: We have the -t switch which we can turn on separately to activate trace mode, which is helpful for discovering undeclared dependencies. Is there a way that we could somehow see just the mtree violations, without all the other verbose/debug

Re: Categories are evil

2007-08-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-22 10:13:18 -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Aug 22, 2007, at 5:34 AM, Randall Wood wrote: I understand that some directories under the proposed scheme may be large, such as /p/p5, /p/py, /g/gn but it seems that this would not be any real change from the current situation for the

Re: MacPorts 1.5.2 now available

2007-08-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-21 16:33:11 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: [...] ld: Undefined symbols: _rl_completion_matches _rl_filename_completion_function _rl_username_completion_function /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed make[2]: *** [Pextlib.dylib] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make:

Re: Categories are evil

2007-08-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-22 18:11:55 +0200, Rainer Müller wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: 'port dir portname' only lists the first directory (when a port is present in several sources). That's good, otherwise we wouldn't be able to do something like cd $(port dir foo) Yes, but one may want the one

https://svn.macosforge.org

2007-08-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I can no longer connect to https://svn.macosforge.org/. Any information? -- Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Web: http://www.vinc17.org/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: http://www.vinc17.org/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: How to see just mtree violations?

2007-08-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-28 01:50:30 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: It turns out that if you just install the port normally, with neither debug nor verbose output, mtree violations are already easily visible. So no change to base is necessary. The problem is that when one uses debug/verbose output, one gets so

Re: How to see just mtree violations?

2007-08-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-27 23:39:04 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: If I'm reading you correctly, you're proposing a Portfile only be accepted as clean if it specifically states it doesn't violate the mtree? If so, such functionality would require us going through every single one of our Portfiles

Problem with patchfiles (same name for different versions)

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
MacPorts stores patchfiles in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/${name} e.g. /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/mpfr contains here: -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 787634 2007-07-24 16:10:58 mpfr-2.2.1.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 872947 2007-08-29 15:38:57 mpfr-2.3.0.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin

Doc directory (was: [28480] trunk/dports/archivers/p7zip)

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-01 07:28:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Changed doc directory to ${name}-${version}. I don't know if there has been a discussion about this, but is there any reason to include the version, given the fact that two different versions cannot be activated at the same time? I find

Re: Doc directory (was: [28480] trunk/dports/archivers/p7zip)

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-03 15:57:47 +0200, N_Ox wrote: Recent autotools-based package doc directories default to ${name}-${version} (see libogg and libvorbis). But why did they do such a change? Note that this is a setting that comes from these particular packages, not from the autotools:

Re: Problem with patchfiles (same name for different versions)

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-03 16:39:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Upstream patches are versioned: they are in different subdirectories. But MacPorts doesn't care, unless I've missed something to have the subdirectory taken into account. Also, I tried specifying the directory after patchfiles, but port does

Re: zsh and zsh-devel

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-03 12:22:17 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: What portname suffix would you propose instead of -devel? -devel seems ok to me -- it indicates that this will install the version currently being developed by the developers, as opposed to the version that is stable and has already been

Re: Problem with patchfiles (same name for different versions)

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-03 12:18:29 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I also don't know if patchfiles/distfiles can be renamed after download. In the absence of that feature, I recommend: dist_subdir ${name}/${version} (Instead of the default dist_subdir ${name}) Thanks, this solves the problem. -- Vincent

Problem with the repository: bogus date

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I've noticed the following error: $ svn log -r2 https://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports svn: Bogus date -- Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Web: http://www.vinc17.org/ 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: http://www.vinc17.org/blog/ Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire

Re: Newbie Port Creator Questions

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-04 00:38:15 +0200, Rainer Müller wrote: GPLv2 is not necessarily incompatible with GPLv3. It is. GPL lets the original author choose how new versions apply to the software. See paragraph 9 of the GPLv2 [1]. --snip-- | Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If

Re: [28902] trunk/dports/devel/ossp-cfg/Portfile

2007-09-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-11 01:26:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- trunk/dports/devel/ossp-cfg/Portfile 2007-09-11 08:16:38 UTC (rev 28901) +++ trunk/dports/devel/ossp-cfg/Portfile 2007-09-11 08:26:27 UTC (rev 28902) @@ -3,16 +3,21 @@ PortSystem 1.0 name ossp-cfg

Re: gcc42 fails to build with texinfo 4.11

2007-09-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-10-01 10:59:48 +1000, Boey Maun Suang wrote: I can confirm that I get the same problem trying to build port:gcc41. I haven't the time to read the upstream mailing list just now (thanks for the link), but, assuming that this is considered a bug in Texinfo that will be fixed, I'd

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-10-30 12:43:52 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote: Weissmann Markus: Yes, but I meant this to be a per-Portfile choice so a maintainer can mark his/her port as being able to build in parallel. Doing this with the sledgehammer for all ports that use 'make' might be a bit too much. ;)

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-10-31 12:26:44 +0100, Markus Weissmann wrote: On 31.10.2007, at 05:13, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I disagree. Port maintainers should test their port to see if they work with make -j. Well, you cannot reliably test this. If you're lucky it might work one time and fail the other. So

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-10-31 15:04:45 +0100, Markus Weissmann wrote: On 31.10.2007, at 12:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-10-31 12:26:44 +0100, Markus Weissmann wrote: On 31.10.2007, at 05:13, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I disagree. Port maintainers should test their port to see if they work with make -j

Re: Speed up build phase with make -j

2007-10-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-10-31 15:57:56 +0100, Markus Weissmann wrote: So the discussion has narrowed to: 1.) disabled by default on an per-installation option: Can be toggled system-wide (with default off); ports have to actively deny a parallel build attempt; 2.) disabled by default on a per-port option

Re: Change in commit mails format

2007-11-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-11-18 02:13:04 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: I still have to find where that header is being set, since the relevant field on the mailing list administration page doesn't have any value (i.e. Mailman itself doesn't seem to be setting the Reply-To we currently have on those

Re: Change in commit mails format

2007-11-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-11-19 19:00:45 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: What difference does it make to impose a Reply-To header at the post-commit hook level or at the mailing list level? The overall effect is the same. Well, this was a general rule. If someone (who is not the post-commit hook) sends

Re: Final steps for 1.6

2007-12-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-07 00:17:04 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: My list of outstanding TODOs for the 1.6 release is almost empty after finishing what I committed in r31774, directly to the release branch: a rethought and rewritten postflight script to add PATH and MANPATH settings as

Re: Final steps for 1.6

2007-12-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-07 13:38:26 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: Adding our setting to MANPATH *only-if-it-already-exists* *and* if we're not already in there was agreed here to be the lesser evil for the time being, so that's what we're doing. If MANPATH does not exist at all (different

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-20 10:00:24 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13641 Perl 5.10.0 has now been released, so there are now two stable port versions available: perl5.8 and perl5.10 Is there a need for two different ports? -- Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-20 12:52:48 -0500, Mark Gardner wrote: There are some incompatible changes (see http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0-RC2/pod/perl5100delta.pod#Incompatible_Changes), so some might want to stick with 5.8. I'd say that very few modules or scripts should be affected (if any),

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-20 11:52:21 -0700, Boyd Waters wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 2:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Is there a need for two different ports? Since you can't specify a version when you install a port, or use a port in a dependency, then I've been told to just go ahead and make a separate

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-21 10:34:00 -0500, robert delius royar wrote: I compiled perl 5.10.0 with the same configuration that macports 5.8.8 used. [I have the perl5.8 port set as the primary perl interpretor and have created links in /usr/local/[bin|lib|share] to make it so that other software finds

Re: tetex/texlive dependencies

2008-01-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-11 10:09:21 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote: Not sure if that is a great example. For now, _only_ perl5.8 provides the ${prefix}/bin/perl program and perl5.10 doesn't provide it. Should it follow the lead of python24/python25, where _none_ of the ports supplies

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-04 07:52:44 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 4, 2008, at 06:51, js wrote: What's happen after -devel port get officially released? are they removed from svn? Some maintainers do that. I think most just leave the -devel ports around. I think that both choices are a bad idea,

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-04 11:27:24 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Regarding the suggestion to rename all *-devel ports to *-latest, in light of the above change, the name latest would indeed seem to be clearer. It would also remove any potential confusion with the RPM - devel packages, which IMHO would

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-05 13:57:30 +0100, Thomas de Grivel wrote: Then we would have to warn new users about -latest not being so stable because intuitively I would like the latest version to be installed but what retains me the the previous one is that it just works. For the sake of stability I would

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-07 15:21:41 +0100, Thomas de Grivel wrote: 2008/2/7, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It was proposed that -devel ports should be updated to the latest stable version, if the latest stable version is newer than the latest development version. If we act on this proposal, then -latest

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-07 09:47:45 -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Seeing that there are 5 different postgresql port (7, 80, 81, 82, 83) makes me quite puzzled, which one is considered stable? Each postgres version in macports has an on-disk format that

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-07 22:08:57 +0900, js wrote: I agree with you, but I think that the situation that devel-ver stable-ver is very rare. I've never seen it. (By newer, you means the version number is greater, right?) It happens for tin almost each time a new stable version is released (because it is

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-07 23:00:14 +0900, js wrote: If the developer call it as stable and the other's development, Let' follow it. Anyone who like to use newer can easily choose -devel one. However this may be confusing for the end user, as depending on the developers, unstable doesn't always mean the

unison and protocol breakage

2008-02-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The unison port has recently been upgraded from 2.13 to 2.27. The problem is that the protocol has changed between these versions, and unison 2.13 can't talk to unison 2.27: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14172 The only solution that can work in every case (because users

Re: unison and protocol breakage

2008-02-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-17 08:36:37 -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote: No, the solution here is to not do anything. Anybody using 2.13 needs to upgrade if they want to work with 2.27. We are not in the business of providing old port versions, and we *should not* be. So, what about these old db, qt and automake

Re: unison and protocol breakage

2008-02-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-17 09:15:47 -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote: Right now we're providing the official, released, stable version. That's what we should provide. I agree that it should be provided. What I was requesting is that 2.13 be provided as well (but 2.27 would still be the default). And I don't

lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, Some packages are now distributed with lzma compression instead of bzip2, e.g. texinfo 4.12: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/ Going back to gzip would be a regression, in particular there is a big size difference (here 2.4 MB for gzip, 1.3 MB for lzma). What changes does a Portfile need

Re: lzma tarball support

2008-08-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-04 11:26:12 +0200, Anders F Björklund wrote: Added as http://trac.macports.org/changeset/38960 To install the lzma program, see port lzmautils. So, should the port build-depend on lzmautils? -- Vincent Lefèvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Web: http://www.vinc17.org/ 100% accessible

Re: p5-getopt-long requires force (was: Re: Can't install gnucash)

2008-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-07 15:53:08 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: The current situation is an inconvenience, but things can be made to work. When installing p5-getopt-long (and some others), use the -f flag to force it to overwrite files from the perl5.{8,10} port. When upgrading perl, it will

charset.alias bug

2008-11-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
At least 5 ports installed a broken ${prefix}/lib/charset.alias file: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11474 http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11968 http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16152 http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17084 Since this seems to be a more or less global problem, shouldn't the

Re: Ports recommending other ports

2009-02-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-02-09 13:10:06 +0100, Rainer Müller wrote: Ryan Schmidt wrote: It might be nice if a port could recommend the user install another port in addition, via some new keyword. For example, graphviz could recommend the user install graphviz-gui as well. postgresql83 could

Re: Ports recommending other ports

2009-02-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-02-10 09:02:15 -0500, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Would running into collisions be easily solved with that we recommend messages? For example, some program may want PHP +apache2 and another could want PHP +no_web. One should never recommend a port with a negative variant. This does not

p5-image-exiftool

2009-03-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
There's somthing strange: $ port cat p5-image-exiftool # $Id: Portfile 38454 2008-07-21 13:51:06Z bl...@macports.org $ PortSystem 1.0 PortGroup perl5 1.0 perl5.setup Image-ExifTool 7.37 maintainers blair openmaintainer description Perl interface to EXIF

Re: Duplicate Perl 5.8 libraries

2009-03-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-03-08 18:22:46 +0100, Rainer Müller wrote: Adam Byrtek wrote: When playing with dependencies for a new port that requires certain CPAN libraries I found out that there are multiple p5 ports containing libraries already included in perl5.8. I had this problem with the following

Re: Duplicate Perl 5.8 libraries

2009-03-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-03-09 05:19:35 +, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote: Vincent Lefevre vincent-opd...@... writes: On 2009-03-08 18:22:46 +0100, Rainer Müller wrote: Adam Byrtek wrote: When playing with dependencies for a new port that requires certain CPAN libraries I found out

Re: perl5.8 fixup

2009-03-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-03-12 23:22:15 +, Eric Hall wrote: Again, see /etc/man.conf, in particular the MANSECT line. But if you're using man from MacPorts, the config file is: /opt/local/etc/man.conf -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.org - Web: http://www.vinc17.org/ 100% accessible validated

Re: perl5.8 fixup

2009-03-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-03-16 09:33:18 -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: This could be good. Just not have perl5.8 install man pages. If perl users don't use them why waste effort. I frequently use the Perl-related man pages. In practice, for the modules, they give the same information as perldoc (when the

Re: perl5.8 fixup

2009-03-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-03-16 15:07:19 -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: I tried this earlier using ./Configure ... -man1ext=1perl5.8 -man3ext=3perl5.8 I don't think it is a good idea to use a dot in the extension, as this can be very confusing (this would probably make completion fail or behave in a strange

Re: [50984] trunk/dports

2009-05-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-05-14 14:08:45 -0700, and.dam...@macports.org wrote: Revision: 50984 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/50984 Author: and.dam...@macports.org Date: 2009-05-14 14:08:43 -0700 (Thu, 14 May 2009) Log Message: --- Maintainer email change, second batch, mail

Re: macports website

2009-07-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-07-14 16:13:46 -0400, Kristofer Henriksson wrote: As a side note, such divergent error handling makes it a shame that there is no debug-type option for error handling to be set in browsers, with XHTML-style failure when debugging is enabled and silent HTML-style perseverance when

Re: macports website

2009-07-17 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-07-14 06:58:50 -0400, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Future work? I wonder, what were the advantages of going with XHTML to begin with? One can use XML tools on it. I sometimes do that on the bug database to see if I haven't missed anything and so on. -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.org -

Re: emacs 23.1

2009-08-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-08-05 15:53:17 -0400, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: I believe one can deactivate emacs 22 and install emacs 23. If a revert is necessary, deactivate the new version and reactivate the old one. No need for an extra port that will only be around for a version. I meant *without having to

use_xz?

2009-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Does MacPorts have a use_xz variable? Some tarballs are now distributed in both gz and xz compression format, and xz is significantly smaller than gz. For instance, for the coreutils 7.4: .tar.gz 9.3 MB .tar.xz 3.9 MB -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.org - Web: http://www.vinc17.org/

Re: --disable-dependency-tracking

2009-09-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-09-02 01:57:27 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: They do point out indirectly that not all software supports this configure argument. For software that doesn't, your solution is fine. But I would not characterize it as a problem with MacPorts to be worked around; rather, it's simply a

Re: The opendarwin .com debacle

2009-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, (I've been quite busy these times and still am.) On 2009-10-14 20:14:54 -0600, Bryan Blackburn wrote: Note that there really isn't any kind of actionable violation, as MacPorts uses the BSD license, and the web page there looks to be his own creation... But is DarwinPorts a trademark? In

Re: The opendarwin .com debacle

2009-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-10-22 13:58:01 -0400, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Search for pspp mac and you'll find dp.com sitting at #4 or #5. This demonstrates at least one way people are finding it: searching for the open source project they want and mac. In my example, simply searching for pspp will not being up

Re: MacPorts 1.8.1 has been released

2009-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-09-29 09:50:00 +1000, Joshua Root wrote: If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run: sudo port selfupdate On Tiger: [...] === making install in src/programs === making install in src/programs/daemondo mkdir -p build /usr/bin/install -c -o

Re: MacPorts 1.8.1 has been released

2009-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-10-28 08:27:15 +1100, Joshua Root wrote: Yes, that's http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20760. Thanks. If it is not fixed in the next version, I think that the upgrade instructions should mention this bug. -- Vincent Lefèvre vinc...@vinc17.net - Web: http://www.vinc17.net/ 100% accessible

Re: [61530] trunk/dports/gnome/liferea/Portfile

2009-12-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-13 19:52:12 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I put the epoch line back in the portfile, because the epoch line can never be removed from a portfile; the epoch can only ever increase, otherwise MacPorts will not report the port as being outdated. I put the epoch line above the version line

executable LaunchDaemons plist

2010-01-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
With smartmontools @5.39_0+darwin, I can see: -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 404 2010-01-26 23:48:21 /Library/LaunchDaemons/net.sourceforge.smartmontools.smartd.plist Is it normal that this file is executable? Similarly, org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist and org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd.plist are

Re: executable LaunchDaemons plist

2010-01-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-01-26 16:33:01 -0800, Scott Haneda wrote: On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Similarly, org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist and org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd.plist are also executable. These are usually symbolic links, and not the actual files. These ones

Re: [63519] trunk/dports/devel/gmp/Portfile

2010-02-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2010-02-06 18:27:12 -0800, mcalh...@macports.org wrote: Revision: 63519 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/63519 Author: mcalh...@macports.org Date: 2010-02-06 18:27:10 -0800 (Sat, 06 Feb 2010) Log Message: --- gmp: Update version 4.3.2 -- 5.0.1. [...] @@

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