Marketing. Ease of use.
Davor Cubranic cubra...@stat.ubc.ca wrote:
On Mar 12, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Art McGee amc...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is that the presentation of the case for supporting
MacPorts was confusing and unconvincing, so usage statistics are not
going to help in that matter.
Apple infrastructure is moving things around, and putting them back together.
On Mar 18, 2014, at 13:14, Comer Duncan comer.dun...@gmail.com wrote:
Just curious. What's the story about the absence of the ports database for a
couple of days it seems?
homebrew will or will appear to get a user to their desired state of “I just
need X installed” faster than MacPorts.
Their users simply don’t care about what MacPorts does: it isn’t that homebrew
has a feature, it’s that homebrew won’t seem to get in the way.
On Mar 18, 2014, at 13:36, Arno
Pretty sure It’s opt-in. So it’s the antithesis of NSA :-p
On Mar 18, 2014, at 18:12, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote:
Well, the statistics gathering is something I would also like to see
(awaiting the new release impatiently), but it’s a little worrisome, because
it has a touch of NSA
This mostly already exists: it’s currently only for packages that are installed.
port echo requested
port setrequested …
Presently, to get your between-installs behavior, you’d dump the output of echo
requested to a file then read it back in. Hilariously, our Migration page (!!!
this is
You might consider checking that the destination of your symlink has
appropriate permissions. My guess is something over there no longer matches up.
Also, like many programs started as root, MacPorts drops root permissions when
they aren’t needed.
On Mar 16, 2014, at 14:43, René J.V. Bertin
This is probably more of a “how to use kmail issue”.
Can it use imaps? It might be a whole openssl library missing meaning no
encrypted protocols work.
Or you need to use smtp and turn on ssl and maybe set the port number—I’m
unfamiliar with the software, but this would indicate kmail not
On Mar 13, 2014, at 14:25, Terry Barnum te...@dop.com wrote:
Hi Art. Thanks for your comments. While I agree the process may seem
confusing, if you look at their standard build instructions you'll see that
the bulk of the process I described is essentially identical. The only
differences
We have scheduled downtime presently.
On Mar 11, 2014, at 13:50, Greg Earle ea...@isolar.dyndns.org wrote:
P.S. Tried to submit a new ticket but https://trac.macports.org/newticket
is giving me ECONNREFUSED.
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phpmyadmin has a few variants, which only set this dependency you’ve hit.
$ port variants phpmyadmin
Warning: xcodebuild exists but failed to execute
phpmyadmin has the variants:
[+]php5: Use php5
php53: Use php53
php54: Use php54
php55: Use php55
On Mar 8, 2014, at 16:53, Greg Gulik
Don’t forget have that third state: set as default in the variants.conf file
but not really a default. How should that be represented here?
On Mar 6, 2014, at 13:51, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
I'm not aware of any, but I'd love to find there is one. I usually end
up dumping a list
https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/python27/
On Feb 17, 2014, at 16:12, Shiyuan gshy2...@gmail.com wrote:
In fact, I cannot find the python27 in the svn repos svn.macports.org.
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I'm trying to build/refresh several portfile and have a few questions which
didn't solve on guide or trac:
- is there a way to keep downloaded distfiles? it seems when doing a clean,
distfile (user or global) are removed which is a bit a pain when doing build
multiples times and sometimes
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers
On Feb 10, 2014, at 22:33, 锌粒 yaoxiangh...@gmail.com wrote:
warning: DNS servers incorrectly claim to know the address of nonexistent
hosts…
What does this mean ?How can I solve this problem?
How did you get llvm-3.1 installed to begin with? Sounds like you upgraded your
OS.
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
On Feb 8, 2014, at 13:43, William H. Magill mag...@mac.com wrote:
Error: llvm-3.1 is not supported on Mavericks or later.
Error: org.macports.fetch for port llvm-3.1
The same happen with ANY package I try to install………..
Betting on someone changed their OS out from under everything…
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Eh, no need for assumptions if the OP actually shared the messages from our
program.
On Jan 29, 2014, at 22:34, Lawrence Velázquez lar...@macports.org wrote:
The same happen with ANY package I try to install………..
If additional ports fail to build, the reason would be in their main.log
Sounds like you’re after PHP’s extension for SOAP. I’d recommend php54-soap in
general, but if you want MacPorts to auto-upgrade you beyond PHP 5.4 then use
php5-soap.
On Jan 28, 2014, at 22:15, Bill Christensen billc_li...@greenbuilder.com
wrote:
I need to install SOAP on a
Maybe texlive-humanities
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/TeXLivePackages
On Jan 23, 2014, at 22:24, Lenore Horner lenorehor...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I have installed most of the texlive packages (see below) but the
parallel.sty that CTAN says is included in TeXLive isn’t there. Does anyone
I vaguely remember the py-tkinter port being split off from python (log says 3
years ago), perhaps it wasn’t a 100% clean split?
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/27768
On Jan 18, 2014, at 11:16, Lenore Horner lenorehor...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Since py27-tkinter depends on python27, doesn’t
It’s very unlikely you have the configure script sitting right inside your home
directory. Perhaps you need to cd to the source code directory first?
On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:18, peter leadbetter peter.leadbet...@btinternet.com
wrote:
Hi
Can anybody please help me to get MacPorts-2.2.1 up and
In the base/src/cregistry/sql.c of MacPorts, I see this command inside
init_db():
sqlite3_create_collation(db, VERSION, SQLITE_UTF8, NULL, sql_version);
Can you make the collation from that?
There is a db function defined by init_db() as well.
On Jan 16, 2014, at 13:43, John Ruschmeyer
Your flags swapped location:
Originally you had port upgrade -f but now you have port -f upgrade. Switching
back to upgrade -f is likely all that’s wrong here.
sudo port -s -n upgrade -f emacs-app
On Jan 13, 2014, at 16:24, Davor Cubranic cubra...@stat.ubc.ca wrote:
I do read it more than
Likewise, I assumed your initial use of -f was a hidden action shorthand so I
reused it in the example :-)
On Jan 13, 2014, at 17:00, Davor Cubranic cubra...@stat.ubc.ca wrote:
In retrospect, I can sort of see this in the man page, but you really have to
know what you're looking for...
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration#ports
On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:39, Nathan Brazil n...@bitaxis.com wrote:
Just to prepare myself for the upgrade, how does one re-install all ports?
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Database being this by default:
/opt/local/var/macports/distfiles_mirror.db
port mirror
Create/update a local mirror of distfiles used for ports given on the
command line. The filemap database can be reset by using the --new
option (though if no database is found, it will be
That warning (implicit function declaration) likely means the source code is
using a function before having it defined. You’ll need to edit the source
(fixes the cause), or ask clang to use an older c standard (fixes only the
symptom).
On Jan 8, 2014, at 14:21, zhifeng yang yangz...@gmail.com
Have you cleaned gettext and tried building it again?
sudo port clean gettext
sudo port upgrade gettext
Also, in case someone else comes to the thread:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:42, claire zaidi claire.za...@picxelteam.fr wrote:
I just upgraded to OS X
Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on localhost which
is more compatible and is not less secure.
bind-address= 127.0.0.1
Running `port contents …` will list all the files of a given package, including
any default config files.
On Jan 4, 2014, at 22:07, Bill
Chances are that will only clean the current version of the dist files.
By default, they’re all in ${prefix}/var/macports/distfiles/ so you could just
rm -rf everything in there if you don’t care about the “current” ones.
sudo port clean --dist not installed
Most likely a piece of xcode was actually damaged by the update. Macports
always checks for score, not remembering it.
Adam Dershowitz Ph.D., P.E. de...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
This is mostly an FYI. I upgraded from 10.9 to 10.9.1 When I think
upgraded a few ports, I started getting:
Warning:
Uninstalling software shouldn't delete your preferences or configuration
files. Imagine the pain of upgrading any software when the previous
version is removed.
Google points me to this possible file:
~/.kde4/share/config/digikamrc
You could either edit or delete it.
David Lyon wrote:
I
Search is run against name and description only. You've included
variants and versions in that search string.
Perhaps you're after port echo?
David Epstein wrote:
I tried
port searchgimp2@2.8.10_0+help_browser+python27
and got the report No match, which puzzles me. Why is it wanting to
When you say nothing works did you try the answers you had discounted
for proxies? Your ISP could be blocking ports or you're still behind a
clever proxy.
That is, have you tried syncing over svn instead?
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN
Gustavo Seabra wrote:
I am having
In your case, skip step three. You won't be telling svn to go through a
proxy.
Gustavo Seabra wrote:
Thanks. I have tried so many things I don't even remember all of them. I
have also tried the svn syncing you mention, but in step 3 there one
needs to configure svn to work with a proxy. Since
Hmm, can you share the contents of:
/opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf
Gustavo Seabra wrote:
Steps 1 and 2 worked just fine. skipping step 3 I get the message below
(basically, nothing changes.)
I attach my sources.conf file here, in case it helps.
At that point, pcre is already installed.
Yannis Haralambous wrote:
When I try to install pcre, I get the following error message:
sudo port install pcre
--- Computing dependencies for pcre
--- Cleaning pcre
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You might get lucky with just selfupdate.
Still recommended you uninstall/reinstall:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:09:44 -0500, McEnerney, James F.
mcenern...@llnl.gov wrote:
Recently mac was upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8.5.
Should I uninstall macports
1 Package manager.
2 Apple is slow to update, if ever.
Volker Nebel vne...@web.de wrote:
Hi,
I have been using postfix on my FreeBSD-Laptop, now I have bought a Mac
mini and want to reinstall postfix (and fetchmail and pine...). I have
installed the macport and then found that postfix is already
I'd add a debug flag and run it once more:
sudo port -d selfupdate
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:11:15 -0500, Alia Jemmali alia.jemm...@gmail.com
wrote:
sudo port selfupdate
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Which Xcode and Xcode Command Line Tools have you installed?
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:54:27 -0500, Gmail yangz...@gmail.com wrote:
:info:configure -
:info:configure CMake 2.8.12, Copyright 2000-2012 Kitware, Inc.
:info:configure
If a given CPAN module doesn't work then we could create a real Portfile
for it versus interfacing with CPAN. By default, I would assume, the
majority of modules should work. Tongue-in-cheek, I'd additionally say
tickets would be made for modules that don't just work.
I'm not sure we
You probably learned of and installed xcode 5.0.2 before anyone at macports. It
might be a bit.
Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com wrote:
Apple just released Xcode 5.0.2, which I installed from the App Store
link.
Is a later version of the Xcode command-line tools required now, i.e.,
So you've cut off the first error message, namely the part where it tells
you how to correct your situation.
Error: Requested variants … do not match original selection ….
Please use the same variants again, perform 'port clean zlib' or specify
the force option (-f).
On Fri, 08 Nov 2013
`port variants`, which you ran, shows the variants as they’d be chosen for the
command. Since there are no + or - shown, no variants will be chosen or
disabled by default.
You can always be explicit about your variants, even if they’re defaults:
sudo port PORTNAME -thing +other
Are you sure
I’m not sure that making more work is really something we want to do. Anything
perl5.18 should have a strict dependency on perl5.18 until we get this
ridiculousness hammered out.
Last we discussed, it sounded like even perl_select was not an ultimate
solution.
On Nov 3, 2013, at 15:38, Ryan
I’m not sure that making more work is really something we want to do.
Right. But I’m not sure what course of action you’re advocating with that
sentence.
Introducing another perl5 variant means that’s another set of ports and their
variants we need to clean up if we were to switch to
`port -v installed` will show the variant selection for installed ports.
You’ll probably want to use `port upgrade —enforce-variants …` to switch ports
the variants you want.
On Oct 28, 2013, at 16:18, Comer Duncan comer.dun...@gmail.com wrote:
How do I find the list of currently installed
This one's because you need to use `sudo port…`
But yes, be sure you’ve also followed the Migration instructions on every OS
upgrade.
On Oct 28, 2013, at 17:29, Sterling Smith smit...@fusion.gat.com wrote:
Did you try:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration ?
-Sterling
On Oct 28, 2013,
You could just use a newer llvm? I recommend 3.3
llvm-3.1 is not supported on Mavericks or later.
Should I reinstall Macports? If so, should I uninstall my current copy of
MacPorts first?
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Further, you may have packages that depend on an llvm version via a variant.
Consider using the `port upgrade —enforce-variants …` command to have macports
switch your ports on your behalf.
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Make a ticket and attach the log there.
Masha Vecherkovskaya mashavec...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi guys.
octave-statistics failed to build with the following message:
Error: org.macports.build for port octave-statistics returned: command
execution failed
Can you take a look please.
You might consider seeing what the port installed:
port contents dvdrip
This might reveal the actual binary name, or the actual path to it.
On Oct 26, 2013, at 15:09, bunk3m bun...@gmail.com wrote:
$ dvdrip
-bash: dvdrip: command not found
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Install a new OS?
Follow https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
On Oct 25, 2013, at 17:24, Comer Duncan comer.dun...@gmail.com wrote:
I upgraded to Mavericks a couple of days ago. I installed Xcode and command
line tools. Today I am trying to run my little script to occasionally
upgrade
Either way for the software update mirror to pickup the package and make it
available to you, or
go to developer.apple.com/downloads to download and install it manually.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 6:52 AM, Adam Mercer wrote:
Can't install the software because it is not currently available from
the
I have an issue in my organization where our DNS servers are configured to
'helpfully' give an IP address back for every query. In cases where the host
is actually not known, the IP address is configured to perform a search and
respond with an HTML page. As a result macports installs can
You'd be using dnsmasq as a local cache, filtering with its bogus-nxdomain
directive. If you make a query and it doesn't have the record cached, it'll ask
the upstream (VPN's DNS).
You'll want to look at the bogus-nxdomain directive. From the example config
file:
# If you want dnsmasq to
It's just one of many possible solutions.
You can get a list of the domains you need and hard code them in /etc/hosts,
and then use an open DNS provider.
I think dnsmasq will allow you to use one upstream DNS server for a certain
domain tree (e.g. subdomains sharing a common domain) while using
Ah, that's why I never saw it then: it's not accessible through notes.
On Sep 20, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
Yes, and MacPorts prints a message to that effect whenever a StartupItem is
created, independent of the port's notes.
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Eh, there's more to it than just the notes:
$ port notes mysql55-server
mysql55-server has the following notes:
If this is a new install you might want to run:
$ sudo -u _mysql /opt/local/lib/mysql55/bin/mysql_install_db
You need to run `port load...` or `port unload...` to actually start
+1
And why trust the hardware when you can't trust the software?
On Sep 12, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
I guess the real point is that if you don't trust Apple's toolchain, you
can't trust the entire OS ...
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Likely http://julialang.org/
On Aug 29, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
What's Julia?
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Definitely pass it along, but ecdsa sounds like public key. Is it just elliptic
curves it shuts off?
Stubbs Jeff j...@cjstubbs.org wrote:
Hi All,
Wanted to integrate DomainKeys with the firm's Postfix mail server. So
when I spotted the openDKIM port in the repository, I tried to install
the
Please see the log file for port gtk2 for details:
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_gtk2/gtk2/main.log
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He converted people to MacPorts because we have what Homebrew does not (that,
and, you know, being a package manager).
Please enlighten, convert people to what and why?
:) Not much, if any. But the reverse is constantly true. LaTeX is the one
that got me to convert people in the CS
Look inside 'port work ...'
Brian D. McGrew br...@visionpro.com wrote:
On 8/8/13 2:00 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jerem...@macports.org
wrote:
On Aug 8, 2013, at 13:53, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
jerem...@macports.org wrote:
On Aug 8, 2013, at 12:58, David Barto dba...@visionpro.com
Maria is a drop-in open source replacement for mysql. It also has many features
that mysql has avoided adding (for future profit model?).
Mysql has already had some gaffs where they're hinting at closing up the source.
It's pretty clear mysql is on the way out, but it may not be there yet.
The mysql51, mysql55, mysql56, mariadb and percona ports do not conflict so
there are no common files, if thats what you meant.
Yup, that's basically what I meant.
I would like MacPorts to have an [un]official default mysql port that ports
can depend on or the ports can provide variants or
You want to append subport=$name to the command:
sudo port build subport=py27-pypdf2
On Jul 31, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
I've just created a Portfile for a python module, and like to test this.
My normal action is just cd to the folder where the Portfile is located
and type
I'd go with a ticket since there aren't many devs on the users list...
On Jul 31, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
Thanks, Jeremey!
This info doesn't seem to be present in the man page or the online
guide. I like to see it added. Should I create a trac ticket or is this
email thread
This is likely due to the switch between setuptools and distribute.
On Jul 25, 2013, at 4:31 AM, William Gallafent wrote:
Hi all,
First, thanks to the developers for the 2.2.0 release!
Secondly, here's a problem which I've been hitting for a while. As part of
some housekeeping, I
Two options.
Per command:
sudo port -s ...
Globally in macports.conf:
# When to build ports from source. Default is 'ifneeded', which downloads an
# archive if available or builds from source otherwise. 'always' has the same
# effect as -s on the command line, and 'never' is likewise the same as
MacPorts will copy the agreement into place provided the user runs the
agreement as the same person running `sudo port ...`: it uses $env(HOME).
http://trac.macports.org/browser/tags/release_2_1_3/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl#L1188
macports::copy_xcode_plist
On Jul 20, 2013, at 2:35 PM,
You likely need to install (or reinstall) Xcode:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#missingxcode
On Jul 19, 2013, at 9:09 AM, SG KIM wrote:
Hi all,
I'm using x86_64-apple-darwin10.0 with snow leopard (10.6.8). I've got an
error while I tried to update port my MacPorts (2.1.2) to (2.1.3):
Consider using the -b (binary archives only) when running the port command or
setting buildfromsource to never in $prefix/etc/macports.conf
On Jul 1, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I would like to ask if there is some way to prevent upgrading those
ports that will eventually be
The important point here is the difference between perl5 and perl5.XY.
$ port provides /opt/local/bin/perl
$ port variants perl5
$ sudo port -n upgrade --enforce-variants perl5 -perl5_12 +perl5_14
$ perl -v
wow! that seemed complicated, but it did the job. Many thanks,
I did a port self update yesterday, and apart from a few glitches (during
update outdated) which ran fine
second time, I now see:
: port version
Version: 2.1.3
: port list macports
MacPorts @2.2.0-beta1sysutils/MacPorts
Why did the beta version get
${prefix}/apache2 isn't standard hierarchy.
The gist of it being either we update the hierarchy or we move the files around.
On Jun 13, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Jan Stary wrote:
moving apache2 install files to conform to porthier.
What does that mean, speicifically?
Is there a problem with the
Besides manually link gmake to make (also manpage), is there a way in
macports to like gmake to make?
Why would you want to do that?
This will lead to mixing BSD and GNU utilities--probably a bad idea unless
you're always accounting for this. Most people don't, and that's why gnumake is
Clearly, the statistics can be used many different ways.
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At least Mavericks development is public knowledge now.
There's also the NDA to consider
Also, this is probably better geared for the dev list.
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Historically the issue I've run into is mixing Apple's and MacPorts' SSH with
keychain. That is, after installing MacPorts' SSH the agent never talks to
keychain because you need to run Apple's for that. Once the key is in there,
then the MacPorts one can use it---something convoluted like
It's as Ryan pointed out: find out why the compiler failed inside the work
directory. Check out the config.log.
Daniel Pesch d-pe...@versanet.de wrote:
Am 25.04.13 04:28 schrieb Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 24, 2013, at 21:01, Daniel Pesch wrote:
Cleaning didn't work, so here is the log:
To get a working terminal so you can fix this, try changing the shell.
Besides bash, OS X should come with csh, tcsh, ksh and zsh. Let us know if
this lets you access a terminal window.
Another thing that might be doable is Terminal - New Command
This lets you avoid the existing default
Although I have read the page Using the Right Compiler this page
does not actually provide any insight as to which compiler should be
used to build the MacPorts tree, particularly on older systems with
rather outdated system compilers. It seems as if MacPorts prefers
clang, but by default it
An application written in python wants to import a python library not
presently included among MacPorts' ports.
I would just add it to MacPorts then.
The library in question is hl7 which parses health care-related messages
encoded in HL7 v 2.x and available from
Is there some more standard place under Mac OS where I can relocate the
hl7 library so that my MacPorts python can find it?
Well, `pip install --user` puts things into the user-site.
I am maybe missing the relevance of pip to MacPorts
pip is the python package manager; if python's able
My ~/Library/ contains no Python
My /Library does contain Python 2.3 2.5 2.6 2.7 however despite that I place
the hl7 into
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
Okay, but these aren't the same directories.
The documentation said to use ~/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
I'm interested in see the source code for /opt/local/bin/getopt.
Could anybody show me how to locate the source code of an executable
in macports? Thanks!
First check which port it comes from:
`port provides /opt/local/bin/getopt`
Then you can extract the source of the port and cd to the
What do I say to get wget to do what I want -- save the file in the
final name (in this case, CodeChickenCore%200.7.3.jar or
CodeChickenCore 0.7.3.jar
`man wget` shows the -O FILE option to put the download into FILE. So you
likely want this:
wget -O CodeChickenCore 0.7.3.jar
But the issue is that prior to running this, I have no idea what the redirect
will be. And, I have 4 different things to download like this.
I want wget -- since it is already following redirects -- to update the name
it will use. And that I have no idea how to do.
In that case, the man
I did port search zopfli and got no results. Are you asking about a
MacPorts port? If so which one?
Or are you requesting that we add a port for zopfli? If so, the issue tracker
is the place to do that.
I think it's a request, since it was in the news recently.
I already have the macports version of php54 installed. But when I just
installed phpmyadmin, it installed php 5.3.
Is there some way to change this so that phpadmin uses php 5.4 instead?
Please check which version of phpmyadmin you installed:
$ port installed phpmyadmin
It might be that
I sometimes use extensive and lengthy notes in portfiles. I want to update
one's notes section just a bit, but I'd hate to think it would cause anyone
to actually upgrade an installed port because of it. What is the recommended
practice now?
This is a dev list question...
Simply don't
What's the advantage of using a bunch of conf files, one for each virtual
host, over just putting blocks for them in httpd-vhosts.conf with
corresponding entries in /etc/hosts ?
to make it easy to distinguish which host is in which file
Or does using the separate conf files mean I don't
The suggested 'port notes' works for a given package;
for example, if I run 'port install package', I can run
'port note depof:package' after that and get all the notes,
in one place. But:
(1) this should happen automatically
as a part of the 'port install'.
Well, we shouldn't put the
Surely the install process does some maintenance at its exit
(read: catches signals), and can spit out those messages even
if it is exiting due to being interrupted (as opposed to
finishing without error).
If MacPorts is quitting because the user is closing the window mid-process or
the
And even if he wanted to kill the ongoing installation,
why would he close the window, as opposed to simply
killing the process in that (terminal) window?
There's a button there, the user can hit it.
To lose any possibility of looking at the output?
It was an accident! Tell me you've never
How's about you just display all the packages messages
after the port(1) job finishes, and the user, uh, I don't know,
reads them?
It would probably be sufficient to re-display notes after a
more-than-one-port-was-installed command.
you are trying to fsck it in the ear.
Come on, Jan. No
I didn't even see any of it. I tend to let ports install and take care
of themselves, unless I see any notes at the end of the install (where I
do look for them).
So what do I need to do?
You can review all the notes for installed KDE4 ports:
`port notes installed and category:kde4`
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