On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:46 PM, David Winsemius <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apologies if I am retracing old ground, but I could not find a FAQ or a link > to a search facility to the Archives on the user-support page: > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users . > > a) I'm a regular reader and contributor to r-help and typically use Markmail > for searching the R-help archives, but do not see that this macports is > archived there. Where or how do people generally search? Is MacPorts List Archives [1] what you are after? > b) I'm trying to adhere to the conventions that the official Mac port of R is > using and they do not like packages installed with Macports, homebrew or Fink > because R modules (if that is the right word) are statically linked and they > do not feel that the choice of where packages get put by these installation > services end up in the canonical directory. So I am trying to update my curl > installation and I think it was installed with macports, probably some time > ago before I updated to Lion v 10.7.5. I don;'t see much point in updating to > ML and there are current problems with Mavericks installation of R so I'm not > ready to take that leap forward, either. > > At the moment I'm getting this response to my efforts at even updating > Macpoorts: > > david-winsemiuss-mac-pro:~ davidwinsemius$ sudo port selfupdate > ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync > MacPorts base version 2.1.3 installed, > MacPorts base version 2.3.1 downloaded. > ---> Updating the ports tree > ---> MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.3.1 > Warning: Disabling readline support due to readline in /usr/local You might move /usr/local [2] out of the way before you perform "sudo port selfupdate". mv /usr/local{,-moved} sudo port selfupdate mv /usr/local{-moved,} > Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:admin; permissions > 0755; Tcl-Package in /Library/Tcl > > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new > MacPorts base: command execution failed > ----------------- > > I've read that trying to uninstall macPorts can be dangerous and advised to > pose my question here. What advice can anyone offer. Perhaps reading "Migrating a MacPorts install to a new major OS" [3] will help you be more comfortable uninstalling and reinstalling ports that are important to you. [1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MailingLists [2] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts#source_privileged [3] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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