Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 5, 2013, at 08:46, Daniel J. Luke wrote: I would say we should even go further, and get rid of all of the p5-* ports. Instead, we should install perl5 as the latest stable perl, and include our own 'cpanm' program (like how perlbrew has it's own) which would

Macports, Mavericks, LaTeX/XeTeX, PDF files, and Trace/BPT trap: 5

2013-11-11 Thread Dimitris Diochnos
Dear All, I am sending this email as it appears that the recent version of texlive that comes with MacPorts does not generate valid pdf documents, or at least Preview is not able to handle them correctly. I have installed poppler with the extension +qt4+quartz since I also wanted Okular and Kile

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Nov 11, 2013, at 6:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Nov 5, 2013, at 08:46, Daniel J. Luke wrote: I would say we should even go further, and get rid of all of the p5-* ports. Instead, we should install perl5 as the latest stable perl, and include our own 'cpanm'

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
If a given CPAN module doesn't work then we could create a real Portfile for it versus interfacing with CPAN. By default, I would assume, the majority of modules should work. Tongue-in-cheek, I'd additionally say tickets would be made for modules that don't just work. I'm not sure we

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 11, 2013, at 09:35, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Nov 11, 2013, at 6:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 5, 2013, at 08:46, Daniel J. Luke wrote: I would say we should even go further, and get rid of all of the p5-* ports. Instead, we should install perl5 as the latest stable perl, and

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: It would certainly be possible to have some local metadata that our cpanm could consult to do any of the above, though. This sounds like inventing a second language to do what we can already do in portfiles. I

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Mark Anderson
I love the idea of a portfile override, but building from cpanm (cpanmp?) most of the time. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson e...@emer.net On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:44, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: It would certainly be possible to have some local metadata that our cpanm could consult to do any of the above, though. This sounds like inventing a second language to do what we can

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.orgwrote: I think we require base/ changes if only because there won't necessarily be a portfile for each perl module yet there are going to be ports that depend on some of these modules (so we would need a way to handle

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Nov 11, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, base would need to be changed to accommodate this new feature. But I see it as a minimal shim onto calling this other package manager. Are we reinventing bsdpan? yes :) -- Daniel J. Luke

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Nov 11, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:44, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: It would certainly be possible to have some local metadata that our cpanm could consult to do any of the above,

Re: changing default perl

2013-11-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.orgwrote: On Nov 11, 2013, at 11:19, Brandon Allbery wrote: Are we reinventing bsdpan? I don’t know. What is bsdpan? It's CPAN integration with BSD ports. Installing a port with a particular naming pattern, if there is no

Re: Macports, Mavericks, LaTeX/XeTeX, PDF files, and Trace/BPT trap: 5

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, latex is working just fine for me on OS X 10.9, PDFs view just fine. My poplar installation is the default one though, as I don’t use OKular, Kile et. al. Chris On 11 Nov 2013, at 1:45pm, Dimitris Diochnos dioch...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am sending this email as it appears that

Re: Problem installing maxima 5.30.0_0

2013-11-11 Thread MK-MacPorts
I have just committed this as r113187. Do I have to revbump it? It effects only a variant… So I am not sure whether I should really go for a revbump and let everyone rebuild it. On Nov 10, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 9, 2013, at 17:12, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Installing (or

Re: Problem installing maxima 5.30.0_0

2013-11-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:37 PM, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: I have just committed this as r113187. Do I have to revbump it? It effects only a variant… So I am not sure whether I should really go for a revbump and let everyone rebuild it. As I understand it: if it wasn't building with that

Re: Problem installing maxima 5.30.0_0

2013-11-11 Thread MK-MacPorts
On Nov 11, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: As I understand it: if it wasn't building with that variant, then there's no revbump needed for that variant (since nobody has the buggy version built); if it was building without that variant / nothing affected outside of that variant,

Re: Problem installing maxima 5.30.0_0

2013-11-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:48 PM, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: On Nov 11, 2013, at 9:39 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: As I understand it: if it wasn't building with that variant, then there's no revbump needed for that variant (since nobody has the buggy version built); if it was building

Re: Problem installing maxima 5.30.0_0

2013-11-11 Thread MK-MacPorts
On Nov 11, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: The buildbots only build the default variant(s) (and maybe +universal if needed?). If someone requests a non-default variant, it will try to download it but the package archive won't have it. +xmaxima is the default for maxima, so the

Scribus

2013-11-11 Thread Stan Sanderson
I have installed Scribus and the application itself works as expected. However, Scribus has built-in python scripting. Two scripts, a calendar wizard and a script to provide font samples, simply hang if invoked. Another script providing color samples and information, appears to run as expected.

Re: Scribus

2013-11-11 Thread Eric Gallager
What variants do you have Scribus installed with? You can do `port installed scribus` to find out. `port variants scribus` shows which python variants it has available. On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Stan Sanderson stans...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed Scribus and the application

Misbehaving server

2013-11-11 Thread Craig Treleaven
Hi: I have a user that is unable to download mysql-5.1.72.tar.gz from http://mysql.easynet.be/Downloads/MySQL-5.1 . I can't reach that server. I've follwed the link to https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers but I'm not entirely clear what needs to be done to work around this.

Updated command-line tools needed for Xcode 5.0.2?

2013-11-11 Thread Murray Eisenberg
Apple just released Xcode 5.0.2, which I installed from the App Store link. Is a later version of the Xcode command-line tools required now, i.e., later than those released October 22? If so, I’m not finding them: I used Xcode’s menu Open Developer Tool More Developer Tools. . . which

Re: Updated command-line tools needed for Xcode 5.0.2?

2013-11-11 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
You probably learned of and installed xcode 5.0.2 before anyone at macports. It might be a bit. Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com wrote: Apple just released Xcode 5.0.2, which I installed from the App Store link. Is a later version of the Xcode command-line tools required now, i.e.,

Re: Updated command-line tools needed for Xcode 5.0.2?

2013-11-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com wrote: Note that the Terminal command “Xcode-select — install” opens a pop-up window asking whether to install, and if I do ahead, eventually I get an error window “Can’t install the software because it is not

Re: Scribus

2013-11-11 Thread Stan Sanderson
~ $ port installed scribus The following ports are currently installed: scribus @1.4.3_0 (active) ~ $ port variants scribus scribus has the variants: debug: Enable debug binaries podofo: Use podofo python26: Add python 2.6 interface * conflicts with python27 python27: Add

Re: Problem installing Zabbix with libiconv

2013-11-11 Thread Nate Rudd
I did not know there was a zabbix port.  I was able to successfully use that to get Zabbix up and running.  I also updated to the newer mysql and php per your suggestion.  Thanks for your help.   Nate Rudd From: Ryan Schmidt Ryan Schmidt Reply: Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org Date: 

Re: Misbehaving server

2013-11-11 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Nov 11, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Craig Treleaven ctrelea...@cogeco.ca wrote: I have a user that is unable to download mysql-5.1.72.tar.gz from http://mysql.easynet.be/Downloads/MySQL-5.1 . I can't reach that server. I've follwed the link to https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MisbehavingServers

Re: Misbehaving server

2013-11-11 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 10:30 PM -0500 11/11/13, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: On Nov 11, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Craig Treleaven ctrelea...@cogeco.ca wrote: I have a user that is unable to download mysql-5.1.72.tar.gz from http://mysql.easynet.be/Downloads/MySQL-5.1 . I can't reach that server. I've follwed the link