On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Randall Wood wrote:
> I would like to see MacPorts use RPM for its installation database
> instead of whatever we have now.
We don't have anything now. We've also tried to use rpm at various
times in the past, but the impedance matching requirements have always
p
Randall Wood wrote:
> On 3/2/08, Eric Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote:
>> > I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts
>> > should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See
>> http://code.goo
On 3/2/08, Eric Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote:
> > I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts
> > should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
> > .
>
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote:
> I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts
> should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
> .
>
> You might be inclined to address any of the followin
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Daniel J. Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can do almost anything from within a portfile, but there are lots
> of things that you maybe shouldn't.
>
> What are you trying to accomplish?
I want to upgrade the science/geos port to 3.0.0 but
matplotlib-basema
On Mar 1, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Adam Mercer wrote:
> Is there a way that I can check if a given port is installed in a
> pre-fetch phase and display a message, e.g. using ui_msg, if the port
> is installed?
You can do almost anything from within a portfile, but there are lots
of things that you ma
js wrote:
>> Before anyone does anything, I'd like to know why you want this
>> change.
>
> Consistency, period.
> When I upgraded from apache1 to apache2, it surprized me that
> there is no conf dir in /opt/local/etc and apachectl is in
> /opt/local/apache2/bin/.
I agree. Even more, the current
> Before anyone does anything, I'd like to know why you want this
> change.
Consistency, period.
When I upgraded from apache1 to apache2, it surprized me that
there is no conf dir in /opt/local/etc and apachectl is in
/opt/local/apache2/bin/.
> Let's figure out the pros and cons.
>
> A con woul
