Re: How can I know to which package a single component belongs?

2009-12-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 1, 2009, at 00:11, Wolf Drechsel wrote: My question is: How do I find out which port does contain the component abcd ? Is there a database, a port command, just intelligent guessing - or a everybody (exept me) knows… port provides /path/to/file tells you which port provides that

Re: Why doesn't macports install prebuild packages? / give Linux another try

2009-12-01 Thread Vlado Plaga
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:26:00 +1100 Joshua Root j...@macports.org wrote: That's an orthogonal problem which affects source-based distributions as well. You are right, of course. There's no reason binaries couldn't be updated whenever the ports they are built from are updated. Also true. I

Re: gnustep error.

2009-12-01 Thread LeAnne Lis
This has been fixed; do a 'port selfupdate' and try again. (Ticket #22729) Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: Hello, I am still getting the gnustep error: c-24-19-218-170:~ frank$ sudo port install gnustep --- Computing dependencies for gnustep --- Configuring gnustep-make Error:

Re: Why doesn't macports install prebuild packages? / give Linux another try

2009-12-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 1, 2009, at 15:45, Vlado Plaga wrote: Still it is a lot easier to just update a few Portfiles, compared to building and testing so many different binaries (and providing a server infrastructure so people can actually download these), Well, it should be architected so that the process

Re: tcptraceroute 1.5b7 on Snow Leopard

2009-12-01 Thread Scott Haneda
I sort of ran into this a while ago, in that I was not able to troubleshoot things due to all the reasons that tcptraceroute exists. Does the -P flag to the built in traceroute not suffice for you? I have settled on mtr (sudo port install mtr) for my tracing needs, it seems to be a much

Re: [61088] trunk/dports/aqua/qt4-mac-devel/Portfile

2009-12-01 Thread Jochen Küpper
Hi Ryan, Modified: trunk/dports/aqua/qt4-mac-devel/Portfile === --- trunk/dports/aqua/qt4-mac-devel/Portfile 2009-12-01 20:27:47 UTC (rev 61087) +++ trunk/dports/aqua/qt4-mac-devel/Portfile 2009-12-01 20:34:18 UTC (rev 61088)

Re: Why doesn't macports install prebuild packages?

2009-12-01 Thread Jasper Frumau
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Joshua Root j...@macports.org wrote: On 2009-11-30 20:28, Jasper Frumau wrote: Well, but who has the authority to choose the packaging format? Whoever does the work, really. And how many base developers does Mac Ports have at its disposal at the moment?

Re: gnustep error.

2009-12-01 Thread Frank J . R . Hanstick
Hello, After sudo port selfupdate, I tried installing gnustep with the following result: c-24-19-218-170:~ frank$ sudo port install gnustep --- Computing dependencies for gnustep Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state. --- Fetching gnustep-make --- Verifying