Re: Donation

2013-06-28 Thread Sam Kuper
On 28/06/2013, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Jun 28, 2013, at 05:03, Max-Heinrich Laves wrote: I've been using MacPorts for a couple of years. It's great software and I wish to donate some money to the project but didn't find any link (PayPal etc.) on the web page. Is there

Re: Suggestion: Time to Use Trello?

2013-06-26 Thread Sam Kuper
On Jun 26, 2013 12:20 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo raram...@gmail.com wrote: People, Shill? Many projects out there are transitioning to trello https://trello.com/ [...] Just a suggestion... An appalling suggestion, because Trello is not libre, and cannot even be self-hosted by the Macports

Re: Mac crashed while running port upgrade outdated

2013-03-15 Thread Sam Kuper
On 15/03/2013, Lawrence Velázquez lar...@macports.org wrote: On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Mar 14, 2013, at 20:38, Sam Kuper wrote: I had a Macbook running OS X 10.6.8 crash just now due to a TLB invalidation IPI timeout. What do you mean

Re: Mac crashed while running port upgrade outdated

2013-03-15 Thread Sam Kuper
On 15/03/2013, Lawrence Velázquez lar...@macports.org wrote: On Mar 14, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: (c) which additional step(s) I ought to take to ensure the integrity of the Macports installation and of the installed ports. Not MacPorts-specific, but you should

Mac crashed while running port upgrade outdated

2013-03-14 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, I had a Macbook running OS X 10.6.8 crash just now due to a TLB invalidation IPI timeout. On that Macbook, I had recently run sudo port selfupdate, which completed without errors, and had then executed sudo port upgrade outdated, which was in the middle of running. The Macbook has now

Re: Monitoring Internet Usage

2012-07-31 Thread Sam Kuper
On 1 August 2012 01:12, Craig Treleaven ctrelea...@cogeco.ca wrote: ... BTW, with my D-Link router, I think I can limit his network use to certain times of the day (and block specific web sites) but I don't think I can cap his bandwidth. OpenWRT, DD-RT, Tomato or suchlike might be

Have I misunderstood what leaves are?

2012-06-28 Thread Sam Kuper
Entering the command port dependents wireshark produces the response wireshark has no dependents. My understanding of leaves is that a leaf is a port without dependents. Yet when I run port echo leaves, the response does not include wireshark. Please can you help clear up my confusion? Many

Re: Have I misunderstood what leaves are?

2012-06-28 Thread Sam Kuper
On 28 June 2012 16:24, Lawrence Velázquez larry.velazq...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:18 a.m., Brandon Allbery wrote: A leaf is an *unrequested* port without dependents, i.e. the unwanted dependencies left behind when you remove a port that you explicitly installed (and hence had

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2012-06-28 Thread Sam Kuper
On 1 October 2011 05:11, Scott Webster sewebs...@gmail.com wrote: I don't claim to have all the answers, but recently when I had to compile a new latex document I got from a colleague I found that it was not compatible with the macports versions.  So I installed MacTex2011.  It has a great

Re: Shenidam

2012-04-04 Thread Sam Kuper
On 4 April 2012 07:45, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Apr 3, 2012, at 15:15, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Apr 3, 2012, at 14:44, Sam Kuper wrote: Is Shenidam a viable candidate for being ported into MacPorts? I'll see if I can make a port. I can't quite get it working. Here's what

FFmbc port?

2012-04-03 Thread Sam Kuper
I know (and am grateful!) that FFmpeg is available via MacPorts. However, FFmbc[1] is allegedly[2] better than FFmpeg for rewrapping AVCHD files. I wonder if FFmbc might be added to MacPorts? Many thanks, Sam [1] http://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/ [2]

Re: FFmbc port?

2012-04-03 Thread Sam Kuper
On 3 April 2012 07:52, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: I know (and am grateful!) that FFmpeg is available via MacPorts. However, FFmbc[1] is allegedly[2] better than FFmpeg for rewrapping AVCHD files. I wonder if FFmbc might be added to MacPorts? Ah, I was behind the curve: http

Re: Potential disruption to MacPorts domain registration

2012-03-29 Thread Sam Kuper
gkg.net sounds awful. Hope I never have any dealings with them! Wouldn't it be best to simply transfer the domain to another registrar asap? I've found Dreamhost, Moniker and 123-reg to all be reasonably helpful and reasonably priced for domain registration. Sam On 29 March 2012 17:09, Joshua

Re: FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

2012-03-25 Thread Sam Kuper
On 25 March 2012 20:53, bunk3m pneu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the references. I was reading from TrueCrypt license v3. Your links refer to Truecrypt license 2.5. I presume your comments are with regard to v3 of their license. The TrueCrypt License v3.0's clauses VI.6 and VI.7, taken

Re: FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

2012-03-24 Thread Sam Kuper
On 24 March 2012 18:26, bunk3m pneu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not a lawyer but I'd say it is FOSS. Neither am I, and I'd say it isn't. Pertinently, the lawyers employed by Red Hat (among others) agree with me, not with you. See, for instance,

Re: FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

2012-03-24 Thread Sam Kuper
On 24 March 2012 18:54, Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org wrote: On 24 March 2012 18:26, bunk3m pneu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not a lawyer but I'd say it is FOSS. Neither am I, and I'd say it isn't. Pertinently, the lawyers employed by Red Hat (among others) agree with me,

Re: FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

2012-03-23 Thread Sam Kuper
On 23 March 2012 19:17, Gary Little gglit...@comcast.net wrote: My first thought is to go buy an FDE (full disk encryption) hard disk. Both Seagate and Hitachi have them. That is probably the most reliable means of transporting encrypted data across platforms. Interesting. Do any of these

Re: FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

2012-03-23 Thread Sam Kuper
On 23 March 2012 19:24, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: On 23 March 2012 19:17, Gary Little gglit...@comcast.net wrote: My first thought is to go buy an FDE (full disk encryption) hard disk. Both Seagate and Hitachi have them. That is probably the most reliable means of transporting

Re: FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

2012-03-23 Thread Sam Kuper
On 23 March 2012 19:43, Gary Little gglit...@comcast.net wrote: They are hard drives. Plug them into any SAS or SATA controller and they will be look like any hard drive, work like any hard drive, and will be recognized by any BIOS or EFI that I know of, until you configure them to enable

Re: FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

2012-03-23 Thread Sam Kuper
On 23 March 2012 19:44, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: Hm, it's not just the firmware that's in question. To use the Seagate FDE drives on a Mac, one has to use Seagate Secure software, too, which is proprietary: http

Re: FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

2012-03-23 Thread Sam Kuper
On 23 March 2012 20:35, Adam Dershowitz de...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Will truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/)  do what you need? TrueCrypt isn't FOSS. Sam ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

WordNet environment variables

2012-03-04 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, Having installed WordNet using sudo port install wordnet, I'm trying to learn to use it. The man page accessed by entering man wn at the Terminal refers to the WNHOME and WNSEARCHDIR environment variables. However, neither echo $WNHOME nor echo $WNSEARCHDIR yields any result. Please

Re: WordNet environment variables

2012-03-04 Thread Sam Kuper
On 4 March 2012 15:43, Daniel Ericsson de...@macports.org wrote: On 4 mar 2012, at 16:24, Sam Kuper wrote: Having installed WordNet using sudo port install wordnet, I'm trying to learn to use it. This is how I use it from the command-line: $ wn ashes -over Yes, that's what I've been doing

Re: WordNet environment variables

2012-03-04 Thread Sam Kuper
On 4 March 2012 21:58, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Mar 4, 2012, at 14:12, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 11:28, Sam Kuper wrote: In any case, shouldn't MacPorts set them automatically (and, presumably, also unset them if MacPorts is later used to uninstall

Wordnet

2012-03-03 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, Has anyone ever proposed that Wordnet (i.e. the Princeton Wordnet) should be available via Macports? If so, please could you point me to the discussion? If not, please consider this such a proposal :) I'd love to be able to sudo port install wordnet. Thanks, Sam

Re: Wordnet

2012-03-03 Thread Sam Kuper
On 3 March 2012 18:58, Daniel Ericsson de...@macports.org wrote: On 3 mar 2012, at 19:14, Sam Kuper wrote: Has anyone ever proposed that Wordnet (i.e. the Princeton Wordnet) should be available via Macports? If so, please could you point me to the discussion? If not, please consider

Debian-like rename utility - available via MacPorts?

2012-02-22 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, If I'm not mistaken, in Debian Linux ( Ubuntu, etc), there is a rename utility, which I think comes from Debian's Perl package. It allows file renaming using regular expressions, as described in Jens Dreger's post here[1]. Apparently it (or something very much like it) is now available

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Sam Kuper
On 1 October 2011 10:04, Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de wrote: (Snip) MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can not remember which. Of course It may not work anymore. At least I am

Re: Default `convert` command - MacPorts ImageMagick vs. existing installation

2011-09-30 Thread Sam Kuper
From: Mr. Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com Date: 29 September 2011 14:27 I don't think your assumption is correct. As far as I know, Apple will never install anything in `/usr/local/` and definitely not so on a machine fresh from the factory. By convention, `/usr/local/` is for the stuff

MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, This thread was prompted by another thread I started recently, which has since been resolved: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2011-September/025653.html I installed MacTex a couple of years ago, and although I'm not currently using LaTeX for anything, I may want or

Default `convert` command - MacPorts ImageMagick vs. existing installation

2011-09-29 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, I recently found that although my Mac had ImageMagick's `convert` program installed, the `mogrify` command didn't seem to be present. I didn't recall installing ImageMagick, and because of this fact, and also the fact that `which convert` yielded /usr/local/bin/convert, I assumed that

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-18 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 February 2010 08:27, nox n...@macports.org wrote: It should be feasible, I just haven't got the time to do it yet. Thanks, nox, that's good to hear. I'm sure lots of MacPorts users will be duly grateful! ___ macports-users mailing list

sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
Hi folks. I just ran sudo port -f -p clean --all all, which completed OK as far as I can tell, and then sudo port upgrade outdated. The latter command has got as far as --- Building boost but seems now to be stuck there and is now simply eating hard drive space. I had 3.03GB free hard disk space

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 14:59, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: I just ran sudo port -f -p clean --all all, which completed OK as far as I can tell, and then sudo port upgrade outdated... I forgot to mention that I ran sudo port selfupdate before running sudo port -f -p clean --all all. So

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 14:59, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: The latter command has got as far as --- Building boost but seems now to be stuck there and is now simply eating hard drive space. I had 3.03GB free hard disk space when I ran the command, and now, 20 minutes later, have only

Fwd: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 15:33, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: On 17 February 2010 14:59, Sam Kuper wrote: The latter command has got as far as --- Building boost but seems now to be stuck there and is now simply eating hard drive space. I had 3.03GB free

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 15:56, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: Now, I've just had a look in /var/vm . It contains a dozen swapfiles of 67108864 bytes each, plus a sleepimage file of 2147483648 bytes. I've no idea whether this is normal

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 16:03, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: Is there a command to show which ports depend on boost? I think I've got it: port dependents boost This gives: libopenraw depends on boost inkscape depends on boost Now I know there's a dmg for inkscape. As for libopenraw

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 16:11, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: On 17 February 2010 16:03, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: Is there a command to show which ports depend on boost? I think I've got it: port dependents boost This gives: libopenraw depends on boost inkscape

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 16:18, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: The command sudo port uninstall --follow-dependents boost yields the following: --- The following versions of gimp2 are currently installed: --- gimp2 @2.6.6_1+darwin_9+x11 --- gimp2 @2.6.6_2+darwin_9+x11 (active

Listing leaves on the installed ports dependency graph

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, I want to obtain a list of all the installed ports which have no dependents, so that I can keep the ones I need and uninstall the rest. I'm trying to do this via the following command: port installed | sed 's/ (active)//g' | xargs -0 port dependents However, this isn't working quite

Re: OT: MacBook RAM

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 20:37, Jochen Küpper kuepper.joc...@googlemail.comwrote: On 17.02.2010, at 19:43, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Bradley == Bradley Giesbrecht b...@pixilla.com writes: Bradley Isn't there a 4GB kit for you MBP? Bradley http://www.18004memory.com/apple-macbook-pro.asp

Re: Listing leaves on the installed ports dependency graph

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 21:35, Marko Käning mk-li...@email.de wrote: What about using the port port_cutleaves with option -l? Aha! I didn't know about port_cutleaves. Thank you! It looks like port_cutleaves -l should indeed give me just a list of leaves: exactly what I was looking for :) Thanks

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 22:38, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 08:59, Sam Kuper wrote: I just ran sudo port -f -p clean --all all, which completed OK as far as I can tell, and then sudo port upgrade outdated. The latter command has got as far as --- Building

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 22:41, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 09:55, Sam Kuper wrote: Now, I've just had a look in /var/vm . It contains a dozen swapfiles of 67108864 bytes each, plus a sleepimage file of 2147483648 bytes. I've no idea whether this is normal

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 22:54, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Sounds pretty normal to me. 67108864 bytes is 64MB; a dozen of them is 768MB. Except that they won't all be 64MB, the first two will be, the next will be 128MB the next

Uninstalling ports from leaf back to branch

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, Suppose I install two ports, CC and DD. Suppose also that CC depends only on AA and on BB, and that DD depends only on AA. Is there a way to uninstall CC such that BB automatically gets uninstalled too, but AA is left intact because it is depended upon by DD? Many thanks in advance,

Re: Uninstalling ports from leaf back to branch

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 February 2010 23:46, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: Suppose I install two ports, CC and DD. Suppose also that CC depends only on AA and on BB, and that DD depends only on AA. Maybe I should clarify that a bit. If, on a clean system, I run sudo port install CC and then sudo port

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 February 2010 01:53, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 17:31, Sam Kuper wrote: On 17 February 2010 22:38, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Yes, this is normal. I was surprised by this too last time I upgraded boost, but boost seems to need about 5-6GB free hard drive

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 February 2010 02:44, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 20:29, Sam Kuper wrote: [...] I guess a better solution would be to somehow have MacPorts or port_cutleaves be aware of which ports had had their installation requested by a user, and to have

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 February 2010 03:20, ~suv suv...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 18/2/10 03:29, Sam Kuper wrote: On 18/2/10 02:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 17:31, Sam Kuper wrote: On 17 February 2010 22:38, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Yes, this is normal. I was surprised by this too last

Re: sudo port upgrade outdated fills HDD

2010-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 February 2010 05:53, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 23:14, Sam Kuper wrote: I guess it would be good to alert the port maintainers for Inkscape and Boost to this thread. Trouble is, I'm not sure how to do that. port info boost tells you who maintains