Many thanks for all your help! After a complete wipe, update of all outdated ports and a complete re-install now everything works!
Thanks again! Fab On 10 Jul 2014, at 16:35, Ryan Ware wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Craig Treleaven <[email protected]> wrote: > At 8:07 AM -0700 7/10/14, Ryan Ware wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt > <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2014, at 5:13 AM, Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: > > I have wiped the root5 installation and re-installed and for what I can see > the two have the exact same root5 installed.... I was going to re-install > python27 too, but there are a lot of dependencies so it might be a pretty > complicated business... is there a way to do the uninstall without breaking > these dependencies? I am going to check if there is any difference in the > python27 installation first.... > > > I doubt you need to reinstall python27. In general, if a port installed, it > installed successfully. Builds are supposed to be repeatable and not vary > based on circumstances. > > > Are there cases where the port can be installed without success? If so, what > are those corner cases? > > I for one am quite happy that builds are repeatable. I've lived in > environments where builds weren't necessarily repeatable and it > was...problematic. > > I think he was referring to cases such as where the post-activate step fails. > Usually, in such cases, the software is "installed" but some configuration > step may not have happened. Eg, a default configuration file might not be > copied to where it ought to be > > Cool. Makes sense. > > Ryan > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr Fabrizio Salvatore | e-mail: [email protected] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 9QH, United Kingdom Tel.: +44 (0)1273 67 8749; Fax: +44 (0)1273 67 8068 http://epp.phys.susx.ac.uk/epp/FabrizioSalvatore facebook.com/p.fabrizio.salvatore https://twitter.com/fabsalva +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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