Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Anders F Björklund
Darren Weber wrote: I've been working with macports under the mis-apprehension that it would operate along the lines of freeBSD (and some frustration may arise mostly from that lack of understanding). I decided that it's time for me to do some long-overdue homework. I've been working

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Darren Weber
Recently, I was running something like update-all and there were some issues with the netCDF library. It was upgraded by the maintainer, who manually updated a dependency on HDF5 within their dev environment, who then put out a request to the HDF5 maintainer to update that package, but this could

Install from Binary Archives (was Re: port install efficiency issue)

2009-03-26 Thread Dave Howell
On Mar 22, 2009, at 22:54 , Darren Weber wrote: I In effect, every time anybody on this grid has to build a package from source, some kind of meta-package monitor can detect whether the build and install was successful and then make an inquiry of a central managment system as to whether

Cannot install protocols for pkill and pgrep

2009-03-26 Thread Doug Daniels
I'm attempting to install the protocols library from port on Mac OS X 10.5.6. I see it listed on the macports website: http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/proctools/Portfile I updated my port: sudo port selfupdate Then I try to do a sudo port list | grep protocols and I don't

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Dave Howell
On Mar 23, 2009, at 0:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: Before we can allow arbitrary users to submit their builds to a central server, we would need to ensure that a build that occurs on one user's system is *identical* to the build on any other user's computer. This cannot currently be assured

Re: Cannot install protocols for pkill and pgrep

2009-03-26 Thread Lenore Horner
On Mar 26, 2009, at 16:00 , Doug Daniels wrote: I'm attempting to install the protocols library from port on Mac OS X 10.5.6. I see it listed on the macports website: http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/proctools/Portfile I updated my port: sudo port selfupdate Then I

re Gnucash crashes on launch

2009-03-26 Thread Gregory Dodwell
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:09:44 +0100 From: Olaf Foellinger o...@foellinger.de Subject: Re: Gnucash crashes on launch: no, I don't have mesa To: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Message-ID: 20090325180944.ga1...@foellinger.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, * Gregory Dodwell

Re: re Gnucash crashes on launch

2009-03-26 Thread Charles Day
2009/3/26 Gregory Dodwell gregree...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:09:44 +0100 From: Olaf Foellinger o...@foellinger.de Subject: Re: Gnucash crashes on launch: no, I don't have mesa To: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Message-ID: 20090325180944.ga1...@foellinger.de Content-Type:

Re: Install from Binary Archives (was Re: port install efficiency issue)

2009-03-26 Thread Rainer Müller
Dave Howell wrote: What about this: I do a ports install widget, ports looks for a binary, doesn't find one that matches (in this case, the default options and current version), so it goes about building it. When it's done, it says upload compiled binary to binary archives? I say Y,

Activation error

2009-03-26 Thread Frank J. R. Hanstick
Hello, I got the following activation error: --- Activating xorg-libX11 @1.2_0 Error: Activating xorg-libX11 @1.2_0 failed: Image error: /opt/local/ include/X11/cursorfont.h already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port xorg-libX11. when trying

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Darren Weber
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Dave Howell groups.20...@grandfenwick.netwrote: On Mar 23, 2009, at 0:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: Before we can allow arbitrary users to submit their builds to a central server, we would need to ensure that a build that occurs on one user's system is

Re: Install from Binary Archives (was Re: port install efficiency issue)

2009-03-26 Thread Darren Weber
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Rainer Müller rai...@macports.org wrote: Dave Howell wrote: What about this: I do a ports install widget, ports looks for a binary, doesn't find one that matches (in this case, the default options and current version), so it goes about building it. When

Re: Activation error

2009-03-26 Thread William Davis
Usually that is a left over file from a failed install. In this case just do sudo port -f upgrade xorg-libX11 [or do -fu if you don't want to keep the old version] WSD On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:46 PM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: Hello, I got the following activation error: ---

Re: Activation error

2009-03-26 Thread Joshua Root
William Davis wrote: Usually that is a left over file from a failed install. In this case just do sudo port -f upgrade xorg-libX11 [or do -fu if you don't want to keep the old version] Don't do that. Upgrade normally applies to all dependencies as well, so you would be rebuilding all of them

Google Summer of Code 2009 - Money for students working on MacPorts!

2009-03-26 Thread Rainer Müller
Hi, Summer of Code is a annual program hold by Google to attract new developers for the open source world. You work on a open source project over the summer and earn $4500 USD. It is a great opportunity for college students to get a real, on the ground programming experience, work on an exciting

Re: Activation error

2009-03-26 Thread William Davis
right you are! WSD On Mar 26, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Joshua Root wrote: William Davis wrote: Usually that is a left over file from a failed install. In this case just do sudo port -f upgrade xorg-libX11 [or do -fu if you don't want to keep the old version] Don't do that. Upgrade normally

Re: dbus startup at system startup.

2009-03-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 24, 2009, at 14:22, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: At system startup, I get the following error messages sent to system.log: Mar 24 08:40:11 localhost launchd: org.macports.dbus: respawning too quickly! throttling Mar 24

Re: php5 port test php5

2009-03-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 23, 2009, at 15:00, drf wrote: My setup: Mac Mini, 10.4.11, Xcode 2.5, GCC 4, MacPorts 1.7 Everything compiles fine, there are some complaints about signedness from the compiler, but it all looks ok. But when I run the PHP test suite, over 70 tests fail, including ones I

Re: stable vs. unstable ports?

2009-03-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 26, 2009, at 17:51, Darren Weber wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Dave Howell wrote: On Mar 23, 2009, at 0:38 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: Before we can allow arbitrary users to submit their builds to a central server, we would need to ensure that a build that occurs on one user's