Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-04 Thread Gustavo Seabra
Hi all, I've been following this thread with great interest, and have learned a lot here! However, I noticed that the whole process of installing Yosemite seems a bit convoluted, maybe even scary, for someone who is not as versed in the peculiarities of MacOS / BSD. So, how would you advice a

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-04 Thread Dominik Reichardt
Just run the installer. After the installation ran through you only need to fix MacPorts (migration guide). Don't worry about edge cases and you don't necessarily need to do a clean install if you have no problems. Dom Am 04.11.2014 um 12:08 schrieb Gustavo Seabra gustavo.sea...@gmail.com:

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-04 Thread Gustavo Seabra
That’s reassuring, thanks! Gustavo Seabra Em 04/11/2014, à(s) 08:28, Dominik Reichardt domi...@gmail.com escreveu: Just run the installer. After the installation ran through you only need to fix MacPorts (migration guide). Don't worry about edge cases and you don't necessarily need to do a

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-04 Thread Gustavo Seabra
Thanks René, Your answer (and Dominik’s) are reassuring, and I think I’ll bit the bullet this weekend. Thanks a lot! Gustavo Seabra Em 04/11/2014, à(s) 08:48, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com escreveu: On Tuesday November 04 2014 08:08:17 Gustavo Seabra wrote: Is this the 1st time

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 4, 2014, at 8:24 AM, Gustavo Seabra wrote: Macs have always provided an incredibly easy way to create a bootable external harddisk (or thumb drive) and boot from it, everyone who is the least concerned about being able to repair or simply maintain the main boot disk should make use

Working path variable for extract phase

2014-11-04 Thread Artur Szostak
Hi, I cant seem to figure out the appropriate variable to use for the extract phase. Or more specifically post-extract. Anyone know this? I thought ${workdir} would work but its not defines during that phase. To explain a bit more: I have a tarball with a bunch of source tarballs inside. I

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-04 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Tuesday November 04 2014 10:53:06 Ryan Schmidt wrote: Can you tell me which tool is that? There's no tool. You just use the normal OS X installer program to install onto an external disk instead of your internal disk. Well, for installing to an external disk you don't need special

Re: Working path variable for extract phase

2014-11-04 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Artur Szostak aszos...@partner.eso.org wrote: I cant seem to figure out the appropriate variable to use for the extract phase. Or more specifically post-extract. Anyone know this? I thought ${workdir} would work but its not defines during that phase.

Typo in online guide?

2014-11-04 Thread Artur Szostak
Hi, Is there a typo in the online guide: https://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases under section: 5.3.5. Extract Phase Keywords It mentions ${workdir} when talking about use_zip, but that variable does not seem to be available in the post-extract phase. So is it valid during other phases or

Re: The crazy thing I did to fix Yosemite performance

2014-11-04 Thread Jeff Singleton
Hi Gustavo, Yes, please do not read too much into my post. I should have stated this may not affect everyone. However, just in case, and to make things a bit easier...I will provide an alternative method, that achieves the same results. Keep in mind, that my convoluted method was because I

Re: Typo in online guide?

2014-11-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 4, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Artur Szostak wrote: Is there a typo in the online guide: https://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases under section: 5.3.5. Extract Phase Keywords It mentions ${workdir} when talking about use_zip, but that variable does not seem to be available in the

Re: Working path variable for extract phase

2014-11-04 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Nov 4, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Artur Szostak aszos...@partner.eso.org wrote: Now I want to know the variable name that contains: /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_vagrant_repo_ports_science_detmon/detmon/work This would be `workpath`. vq ___

unzip: problems with architectures and ld

2014-11-04 Thread Davide Liessi
Hi all. I have a custom MacPorts installation in /opt/macports-i386. Apart from the location, the only non-default option in macports.conf is 'build_arch i386'. Trying to install unzip I get a bunch of warnings like ld: warning: in unzip.o, file was built for i386 which is not the architecture

Re: unzip: problems with architectures and ld

2014-11-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 4, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Davide Liessi wrote: Hi all. I have a custom MacPorts installation in /opt/macports-i386. Apart from the location, the only non-default option in macports.conf is 'build_arch i386'. Trying to install unzip I get a bunch of warnings like ld: warning: in