Ryan,
Thanks for your careful answers. I've learned a lot.
Its weird...in the tools there is an .el file (for emacs). But
nothing re: pythonbindings is there. I looked at debian's related
subversion tools to get a feel for what tools one might expect (the
macports src links for tools was great, btw), and there
pythonbindings was listed.
W/macports, you have to install a separate port (subversion-
pythonbindings).
In general, I am wondering what rubric macports folks use to decide
how to break up functionality...
--b
p.s. Thanks for your help, I was able to use SVN for the first time
ever, downloading a development version of ipython.
On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:12 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 7, 2007, at 20:36, belinda thom wrote:
One final question: how does port handle the case where you've
already installed something (e.g. subversion) and you then want to
"add on" a variant (e.g. +tools)? Does it do a completely new
reinstall, or does it piggy-back off of existing things when it
can? Is it standard practice to clean out the existing (via
port ... clean) before adding the new variant?
Well, you can only have a port activated once. If you already have
it activated with one set of variants (or with no variants), then
you cannot also have it activated with a different set of variants.
You can have it *installed* (compiled) with other sets of variants,
but only one of the installed combinations can be *active* (used)
at a time.
For example, if you did this before:
sudo port install subversion +no_bdb
And now you decide that you also wanted the tools, you could
sudo port install subversion +no_bdb +tools
After it finishes compiling, it will tell you it cannot activate
the new Subversion because another one is already active. You can
then uninstall the other Subversion by specifying the complete
version and variant string, like this:
sudo port uninstall subversion @1.4.2+no_bdb
And then activating the new one:
sudo port activate subversion
Or, instead of uninstalling, you could just deactivate the old one:
sudo port deactivate subversion @1.4.2+no_bdb
And then activate the new one:
sudo port activate subversion @1.4.2+no_bdb+tools
(Here you need to specify the full version/variant string to port
activate because there's still more than one installed.)
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