Re: Finding ports by install date?

-Original Message- From: Carlo Tambuatco Date: 30 May 2016 at 23:26:04 > Dude, thanks! You’re welcome. > Yeah the port -v installed does not list the dates for 2.3.4…wonder if > previous versions > ever did… Probably not. Ryan mentioned trunk, which indicates

Re: Finding ports by install date?

> Is there a way to search for ports installed on a given date? I want to find > ports I installed  > on a specific date and uninstall them.  Absent a built-in method, the following seems to work correctly:  sqlite3 /opt/local/var/macports/registry/registry.db "select name from ports where

Re: Finding ports by install date?

-Original Message- From: Ryan Schmidt Date: 30 May 2016 at 20:41:22 To: Carlo Tambuatco Cc: MacPorts Users Subject:  Re: Finding ports by install date? > Not built in, but you can print the install

Re: installer doesn't modify root path

-Original Message- From: Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> Date: 2 February 2016 at 16:06:18 > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen > wrote: > > > Well, you did not say in the bug report that you were using sudo, so no > > wonder

Re: installer doesn't modify root path

Well, you did not say in the bug report that you were using sudo, so no wonder it got closed. My own systems are too heavily modified at the moment for me to be sure, but I have a file /etc/paths.d/45-macports containing the two lines /opt/local/bin /opt/local/sbin These should be enough to

Re: installer doesn't modify root path

-Original Message- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@math.ntnu.no> Date: 2 February 2016 at 15:57:39 > […] You can check by running “sudo printenv PATH”.  […] Uh, sorry, I missed the fact that you did show the result of running that, and that /opt/local/bin is missing from t

Re: installer doesn't modify root path

-Original Message- From: Phil Oertel Date: 2 February 2016 at 16:31:12 > Entirely possible. I didn't make any such modification personally, but it's > a work laptop, so I don't know what they've done to the image prior to > giving it to me. Maybe I'll get them to

Re: installer doesn't modify root path

-Original Message- From: Phil Oertel Date: 2 February 2016 at 17:13:59 > Yes, it has both env_reset and a secure_path. And some comments at the top > indicating that the file is periodically overwritten by Puppet. Ah, then we have a definite diagnosis! Good. Then

Re: installer doesn't modify root path

-Original Message- From: Brandon Allbery Date: 2 February 2016 at 16:28:50 > The problem with paths.d is that it adds path entries *after* the standard > ones, whereas users tend to expect that e.g. /opt/local/bin/python > "overrides" Apple's /usr/bin/python. So

Re: Versions in ports

Chris Jones wrote: However, your concern above will be caught by the rev-upgrade mechanism. Aha, thanks. Time to re-RTFM, I see. It's been too long. – Harald ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: ledger fails to build on yosemite

Kastus Shchuka wrote: I attempted to install ledger on yosemite (10.10.5) but it failed. I found ticket https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47597 with a log which looks very similar to mine. The ticket contains a patch which does not seem to be committed to the port yet. Please excuse my

Re: Versions in ports

Chris Jones wrote: […] A normal upgrade will first upgrade all the ports dependencies, as required, such that you end up with a consistent updated port. Only if you specifically disable this can you get into a mess. But if ports A and B both depend on port C, and you run “port upgrade A”,

Re: OpenSSL

[Niels Dettenbach n...@syndicat.com (2014-04-08 12:46:27 UTC)] Anyhow: where server secret keys could be changed more easily (i.e. SSH host keys) this should be done. But ssh does not use the openssl libraries, so there is no point, as this bug will not have exposed the ssh host keys. –

Re: Troubles installing rc

[Joshua Root j...@macports.org (2014-01-19 06:47:31 UTC)] destroot fails for rc: /usr/bin/install -c history /opt/local/bin/- ;\ rm -f /opt/local/bin/--; ln /opt/local/bin/- /opt/local/bin/-- ;\ rm -f /opt/local/bin/-p; ln /opt/local/bin/- /opt/local/bin/-p ;\

Troubles installing rc

Before I get to the main point: How do I search for tickets regarding the rc port? The search string is too short, and obviously I don't want all tickets with the letter pair rc appearing in the ticket description anyway. destroot fails for rc: /usr/bin/install -c history /opt/local/bin/- ;\

Re: port selfupdate error

[Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org (2013-07-19 13:48:24 UTC)] You likely need to install (or reinstall) Xcode: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#missingxcode Or possibly, agree to the license by running xcodebuild -license and typing agree when prompted. It may also be necessary to do

Re: Macports stopped working after xcode 4.6 upgrade

[Lawrence Velázquez lar...@macports.org (2013-02-21 06:31:44 UTC)] Very annoying. I've actually filed a Radar about this. http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=2620402 Good. (Should this be in the FAQ?) Considering that we don't recommend using /etc/paths or /etc/paths.d anywhere,

Re: Macports stopped working after xcode 4.6 upgrade

[Richard R. Cahilig chr05210...@gmail.com (2013-02-19 22:39:32 UTC)] Sorry about the typo. export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH Another way to do that is to put this in a file in /etc/paths.d/: /opt/local/bin /opt/local/sbin - Harald

Re: Macports stopped working after xcode 4.6 upgrade

[Lawrence Velázquez lar...@macports.org (2013-02-20 08:47:13 UTC)] On Feb 20, 2013, at 3:22 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.no wrote: [Richard R. Cahilig chr05210...@gmail.com (2013-02-19 22:39:32 UTC)] export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH Another way to do

Re: Macports stopped working after xcode 4.6 upgrade

[Lawrence Velázquez lar...@macports.org (2013-02-20 09:16:27 UTC)] On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:09 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.no wrote: True. If that is what you want, you can tack the directories onto the front of /etc/paths instead. Not sure if either will survive a system

Gimp's dockable dialogs always on top

I have this odd problem with gimp. I tried googling and looking for bug reports describing it, and finding nothing. So I wonder if I am the only one seeing it? The problem is with the so-called dochable dialogs, such as the toolbox and layers and paths dialogs. The smaller problem is that these

Re: Gimp's dockable dialogs always on top

[Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com (2013-01-05 15:23:10 UTC)] You're not the only one; recent Gimp is not playing well with window managers other than the ones that are part of Gnome and maybe KDE. It's a common issue among xmonad users, for example. Oh, crap. But thanks for the info. It's

Re: Gimp's dockable dialogs always on top

[Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.no (2013-01-05 15:44:13 UTC)] Oh, crap. But thanks for the info. It's time to abondon gimp and go shopping for some commercial software, I'm afraid. I was just informed (off-list) that there is a native (i.e., non-x11) OS X binary. It seems to work fine

Re: Gimp's dockable dialogs always on top

[Chris Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk (2013-01-05 18:35:21 UTC)] On 5 Jan 2013, at 6:32pm, Chris Jones jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote: Macports gimp does have a quartz variant, which presumably does the same. You could try that … Maybe I will someday, thanks. But for now I'm sticking

Re: FreeBSD partition

[Raoul rm...@free.fr (2012-11-14 07:58:32 UTC)] I was not aware of zevo, and i will investigate this point. There is also a free zfs implementation for OS X: http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ - Harald ___ macports-users mailing list

Re: MacPorts 2.0.4 and recommendation for Lion Xcode version

[Tabitha McNerney tabith...@gmail.com (2012-03-17 09:56:56 UTC)] I've downloaded MacPorts 2.0.4 but I'm wondering if I should install it using a slightly older version of Xcode for Lion (like 4.2.1) or if its generally ok and recommended to use MacPorts 2.0.4 with Xcode 4.3.1 (which is the

Re: Xcode 4.3: Apparently Persistent License Agreement

[Anthony Michael Agelastos iqgra...@gmail.com (2012-02-18 16:22:05 UTC)] On Feb 18, 2012, at 5:45 AM, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote: unfortunately this doesn't work, probably because the license agreement is stored in the home directory of the user (which is /var/empty for macports user) For

Re: upgrade Xcode to 4.3 with MacPorts 2.0.4

[Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com (2012-03-04 21:00:20 UTC)] xcode-select -version gives xcode-select version 2003. Is that the trouble: I still have the Xcode command-line utilities left from Xcode 4.2? Could be. Make sure you're running /usr/bin/xcode-select. Maybe you are

Re: Xcode 4.3: Apparently Persistent License Agreement

[Rainer Müller rai...@macports.org (2012-03-04 21:19:54 UTC)] On 2012-03-04 21:43 , Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: So what is the trick required to have the macports user accept the XCode license agreement? MacPorts 2.0.4 just copies the agreement to the license from the home directory

Re: Xcode 4.3: Apparently Persistent License Agreement

[Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.no (2012-03-04 21:30:49 UTC)] How exactly does it determine where to copy the accepted license from? I got it; by examining $HOME, which is not changed by sudo. My problem is in the way I run my macports upgrades: I run sudo es (es is my login shell

Re: Xcode 4.3: Apparently Persistent License Agreement

[Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.no (2012-03-04 21:38:46 UTC)] [Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.no (2012-03-04 21:30:49 UTC)] How exactly does it determine where to copy the accepted license from? I got it; by examining $HOME, which is not changed by sudo. So here

Re: Cleaning up stale dependencies

[Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com (2012-02-26 11:08:46 UTC)] On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 04:12, Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.nowrote: But surely, the intent is to do away with [the flat file registry] option in the future? Isn't it already gone as of 2.0? Oh. I didn't know

Re: Cleaning up stale dependencies

[Joshua Root j...@macports.org (2012-02-26 14:48:38 UTC)] Harald Hanche-Olsen hanche at math.ntnu.no wrote: [Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org (2012-02-25 20:05:51 UTC)] deps and dependencies are conceptual inverses of one another. However the information is recorded

Re: Cleaning up stale dependencies

[Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org (2012-02-26 19:38:49 UTC)] If you want to switch to a new version of python, that's up to you, and you can reinstall the port with the python27 variant to indicate that desire. Yup. Already did, before seeing your response. It seemed the sensible thing to

Cleaning up stale dependencies

Here is an oddity on my machine: Inkscape depends on py27-lxml, but py26-lxml counts inkscape among its dependents. ; port deps inkscape Full Name: inkscape @0.48.2_2+python27 Build Dependencies: pkgconfig, intltool, perl5 Library Dependencies: boehmgc, gsl, gtkmm, gnome-vfs, lcms, poppler,

Re: Cleaning up stale dependencies

[Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org (2012-02-25 20:05:51 UTC)] deps and dependencies are conceptual inverses of one another. However the information is recorded in the registry at install time. At the time you installed py26-lxml, it was needed for inkscape. Right; this much makes sense.

Re: barcode fails to build

[Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net (2012-02-02 12:59:29 UTC)] OS X 10.7.2, latest gen Mac Mini Among other things, log says paper.h not found, silly 'cause it's in /opt/local/include, although there's no -I for that shown on the command line. Anyone play with this enough to have a

Re: barcode fails to build

[Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org (2012-02-02 18:33:01 UTC)] On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:04, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: Funny, it built for me, but the resulting binary segfaulted. See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33000 – I haven't looked at it since filing the bug report. You did

Re: Lots and lots of system time

[Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com (2011-11-25 20:50:21 UTC)] On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 15:08, Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.nowrote: I have no idea what mach_kernel`chud is or does, but it disappears from the list when the compilation is stopped. (So do the dtrace functions, BTW

Re: Lots and lots of system time

[Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org (2011-11-25 20:25:46 UTC)] MacBook Pro, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 GB RAM Looks like build.macports.org is a quad core Xeon Xserve running 2.0, 2.66 or 3.0 GHz. If you have some ports that cannot be built in parallel, it should give you a

Solved! Re: Lots and lots of system time

I found out what has been biting me. I had been running a dtrace script in the background to record all tcp connections in a file. After I removed that, updating ports is so much snappier I can't believe it. According to the hype, dtrace is not supposed to affect system performance, or at

Re: Solved! Re: Lots and lots of system time

[Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com (2011-11-26 15:46:34 UTC)] On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 08:42, Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.nowrote: syscall::connect*:entry syscall::connect*:return I wonder if there's a better way to do that, in particular avoiding the wildcards; I would

Re: Request: make the ML's default return candidate be the ML

[Roger Pack rogerdpa...@gmail.com (2011-11-26 15:48:43 UTC)] This can usually be set as default by any decent MUA. I'm sure it can.  Wouldn't you agree that it would be more convenient, perhaps, for it not to have to be set by each new participant? You seem to be asking for the mailing

Re: Request: make the ML's default return candidate be the ML

[Phillip Koebbe phillip.koe...@gmail.com (2011-11-26 16:37:22 UTC)] Or to use the mailing list's address as the from? I believe that's what Google Groups does: You get the message from the same address you send one to. In my experience, that seems to work out well. And there is the added

Re: Lots and lots of system time

This thead has laid dormant for several weeks, so just a reminder: I asked why system time was well above 50 % while I compile macports software. [Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net (2011-10-30 15:03:08 UTC)] If you really want to know what is going on, you could probably use some of the

Re: Binary builds???

[Dominik Reichardt domi...@gmail.com (2011-11-19 12:17:00 UTC)] [...] Actually I uncommented: --- #portarchivetypetgz --- and things started working. :-) I was discussing how it should work, not how it does. I think you've got your story backwards though; uncommenting

Lots and lots of system time

Please pardon me if this is off topic, but it is about a phenomenon I only see when macports is compiling software: So I'd like to hear if other macports users are seeing the same: Namely, that the majority of CPU time while compiling is system time, not user time. Right now, for example, I am

Re: xCode 4.1 ?

[Jeremy Huddleston jerem...@macports.org (2011-07-22 03:06:06 UTC)] FWIW, these ports work on Lion (they're the ones I install ... I haven't tried testing random ports) ... gnome and firefox require the dangerous libnotify workaround for now (you can always undo the workaround and your

Re: xCode 4.1 ?

[Jeremy Huddleston jerem...@macports.org (2011-07-22 07:08:49 UTC)] On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:53 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: The dangerous libnotify workaround? What's that all about? Look at my post on macports-dev, and respond to it there ... Okay, thanks. For those who, like me

Re: Uninstalling a port

[Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org (2011-03-04 15:06:21 UTC)] sudo port uninstall dokuwiki port installed leaves sudo port uninstall leaves See also the newish requested flag: port echo leaves and unrequested Look at the output, run “sudo port setrequested” for those ports you want to

Re: MacPorts throws errors on everything (include uninstall) since selfupdate

[Aba-Sah Dadzie a.dad...@dcs.shef.ac.uk (2011-02-21 10:32:32 UTC)] Both when I tried on Saturday and again just now it starts to install, gets through the required libs successfully, but fails on the checksum for the actual application, and then invites me to submit a bug report. These

Re: What does (epoch 0 2 ) mean?

[Marko Käning mk-macpo...@techno.ms (2011-02-21 16:19:43 UTC)] This is why by using epoch older versions of some ports were deliberately enforced. Also, run “man portfile” and search for “epoch”. - Harald ___ macports-users mailing list

Re: MacPorts throws errors on everything (include uninstall) since selfupdate

[Aba-Sah Dadzie a.dad...@dcs.shef.ac.uk (2011-02-18 12:14:01 UTC)] I ran selfupdate almost a week ago, and my computer is pretty much broken now - for any program remotely related to MacPorts. Is it *only* macports? Your litany of woes would make me suspect either a hardware problem or a

Re: preventing sleep during compilation

[Scott Webster sewebs...@gmail.com (2011-02-04 03:30:33 UTC)] Or a way to prevent this problem other than just turning sleep on and off manually all the time? Someone mentioned caffeine, but sometimes the command line is more useful, especially if you run your port commands from a script.

Re: Changing X11 interface to something better

[Jasper Frumau jasperfru...@gmail.com (2011-01-19 06:03:12 UTC)] What different WMs are there? Now this is the macports list, so may I suggest trying port search 'window manager' ? You'll get quite a number of hits. If you look outside the macports world, the number of window managers out

Re: errors installing a port

[Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org (2011-01-03 21:03:37 UTC)] If that fails the same way, verify perl5 and perl5.8 are installed and active: port installed perl5.8 perl5 If they are, you could try reinstalling them: sudo port -n upgrade --force perl5.8 perl5 Indeed, that is almost

Re: Checksum error

+ Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org: Please see: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27465 Ugh. The whole unversioned distfile situation seems awkward, to say the least. Would it be better if macports were to automatically fall back to the distfiles mirror whenever there is a checksum

Re: Checksum error

+ Frank J. R. Hanstick tro...@comcast.net: Hello, The following port gets a checksum error: --- Computing dependencies for curl-ca-bundle --- Verifying checksum(s) for curl-ca-bundle Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for certdata-1.67.txt Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for

Re: inkscape crashes

+ ~suv suv...@users.sourceforge.net: The following bugs also affect Inkscape (0.48.0 and trunk) if installed with MacPorts using GTK+ 2.22: [...] Bug #651678 “crashes with assertion failure on startup”: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/651678 The second one happens as soon as

Re: inkscape crashes

+ ~suv suv...@users.sourceforge.net: That's the issue Jonathan initially asked about, see Oh, right. Sorry, there are too many issues for my tiny brain to keep track of. The issue seems related to building inkscape or one of the dependencies on 64bit operating systems, also described in Bug

Re: MacPorts vs Mac PATH Conflicts - Best Workaround???

+ LeAnne Lis lisfolks.li...@gmail.com: I understand that MacPorts exports /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin in the .profile to ensure its paths go to the front of the env PATH. Apparently this is done because typically Apple has older versions of stuff than MacPorts, and, of course, most

Re: OT: find command with branch/pipe

+ Andre Massing mass...@simula.no: I am struggling with the find command, trying to find all files ending with .h or .cpp in a certain directory. On my former linux machine the following worked as intended: find ./ -regextype grep -regex '.*\.\(\(h\)\|\(cpp\)' but Apple's find command does

Re: emacs-app does not find latex

+ Andre Massing mass...@simula.no: For some reasons, emacs-app does not find my latex installation (Mactex, bin files are located in /usr/texbin). I installed emacs-app together with the auctex package (using +emacs_app +mactex variants) When I run pdflatex via the command menu, I only got

Re: emacs-app does not find latex

+ Andre Massing mass...@simula.no: (setenv PATH (concat /opt/local/bin: (getenv PATH))) because of gs (setenv PATH (concat /usr/texbin: (getenv PATH))) because of latex and pdflatex You could combine the two into (setenv PATH (concat /usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin: (getenv PATH))) or even

Re: inkscape crashes

Inkscape has been unusable for me on the mac since mid-September due to it crashing, usually within the first one or two actions after startup. I haven't complained yet because I don't use inkscape all that often; and when have needed it, I have been able to use it on a linux machine at work; and

Re: has anyone else noticed?

+ Bayard Bell buffer.g.overf...@googlemail.com: bay...@precious:~ 17:14:48 [504]$ dig www.apensource.apple.com [...] According to http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.opensource.apple.com/, the last time the page was updated for caching was Oct. 29. Seems a bit

Re: Up to date MacPorts

+ Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com: I just want to make sure I have the most current and best tools. sqlite seems a great tool to have as a backend for MacPorts. Absolutely. Note, however, that you need to have portdbformat sqlite in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf (assuming your

Re: rubber dependencies

+ Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:47, Michael Williams m...@pentangle.net wrote: Why then does the MacPorts rubber package depend on 142 packages, including the MacPorts perl, python, texlive and X11 systems ($ port rdeps rubber | wc -l)? Is this intended?

Re: Error setting locale in python

+ Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@kf8nh.com: On 07/23/2010 05:14 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: (Uh, setting LC_ALL to C would override my LC_CTYPE setting, would it not? But nevermind.) No, the individual entries override LANG / LC_ALL, so you can do things like set the locale

Re: Error setting locale in python

+ Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@kf8nh.com: As such, you might try setting LANG and LC_ALL to C instead, in case the iconv library you're using doesn't parse set-but-empty environment variables correctly. Good catch! (Uh, setting LC_ALL to C would override my LC_CTYPE setting, would it not?

Error setting locale in python

python2.5 and python2.6 both don't like my locale setting: ; python2.6 Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jul 16 2010, 21:35:10) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'')

Re: Error setting locale in python

+ Bryan Blackburn b...@macports.org: Do you have anything else in your env that could be affecting the locale stuff? If I use those LANG/LC settings you've listed, the MacPorts python seems okay with it: % env LANG= LC_COLLATE=C LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C LC_MONETARY=C

Re: sqlite error: disk I/O error

+ Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org: I pressed Control-C while MacPorts was activating a port. Now anything I do with port gives me: [...] Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, sqlite error: disk I/O error (10) while executing query: ATTACH DATABASE

Re: Atlas problems

+ Lenore Horner lenorehor...@sbcglobal.net: I''m having the problem reported in ticket 23349. It looks like it may be resolved now. There's a patch there if you don't want to wait for it to be comitted to the ports tree. - Harald ___ macports-users

What is a dependent?

In order to do a bit of housecleaning, getting rid of old ports that I am not really using, I thought I could run port dependents active and deactivate the ports that come up with has no dependents! and that I am otherwise not interested in. But then I come up with oddities like the following: ;

Re: Setting up mysql5

+ Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com: Here is how I have been getting it to work: [...] Thanks. I have another machine to set up once it is done doing a massive port upgrade outdated. (It hasn't been done since June, and it appears to require a couple days' worth of compiling stuff.) - Harald

Setting up mysql5

I just installed mysql5. Compiling it went fine, and running it seems to be no problem using the supplied launchd item. However, I am unable to connect to the database: ; mysql5 -h localhost -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) After

Re: Everything was properly upgraded.

+ Frank J. R. Hanstick tro...@comcast.net: Just an unusual note that everything installed successfully upgraded using: sudo port upgrade installed. Good news should be broadcasted as well. Reminds me of the captain who quite truthfully entered into the log

Re: Why should I use macports?

+ Randolph Fritz rfritz...@gmail.com: On 2009-10-15, Wendy Bossons wboss...@mit.edu wrote: Can someone explain the purpose of Macports and why I might need it? Broadly, because it's an easy-to-use library of useful free software. It provides, especially, dependency tracking, which

Re: .bashrc .profile .bash_profile

+ Brandon Allbery allb...@kf8nh.com: If you run vi and type :!ls, vi will spawn a noninteractive shell to run ls. Noninteractive shells are also used by make, port, and numerous other commands. Note, however, that these invoke /bin/sh and not bash. Even if /bin/sh is bash, it will behave

Re: MacPorts 1.8.1 has been released

+ Damien Clauzel dam...@clauzel.nom.fr: Same here : $ uname -a Darwin arda.local 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 What is wrong with that? On Leopard, I see ; uname -a Darwin mach 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0:

Re: Path

+ Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org: Bash might look in one of several files for its initialization instructions. These files are called .profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc, .login, and .bash_login, and would be directly in your home directory. Which of those files do you have, and what is