Re: macOS Sierra / 10.12 support - where are we?

It looks like there's already a build bot running and several packages are already available to download. That's leagues ahead of past years. Is an installer coming soon? On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Sinan Karasu wrote: > If you install from sources, it works. > > Sent from

Re: A screenshot/webpage capture app like Shutter?

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:58 PM, bunk3m wrote: > @ryandesign, OSX does a great job at capturing an image of the screen but > what I'm looking for is the ability to capture the content, links and > pictures of a webpage. Most webpages are bigger than the screen (in length) > so

Re: New Mac OS Forge administrator

Congratulations. That's great news for everyone! On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Dear MacPorts users and developers, > > I'm pleased finally to be able to tell you that I have been hired to be your > new Mac OS Forge administrator. I have been

Re: Experiences with El Capitan

I've been using this [1] procedure for quite a while. It could easily be adapted for widespread use by hosting the binaries and signatures somewhere publicly. And I'm not sure of the specifics, but I know there are build scripts in the repo somewhere for building all ports. A previous message

Re: Experiences with El Capitan

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Why did > it not merely retrieve pre-built binaries, as usual? Apple hasn't yet provisioned the build environment required for El Capitan binaries. There's a ticket somewhere tracking this issue, but I haven't seen any

Re: Two User-Experience Problems

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Jean-François Caron jfca...@phas.ubc.ca wrote: 2) Since my OS is unusable during long builds, I walk away from the computer, but then it goes to sleep the build is paused. The current advice is to get a non-macports app called Caffeine to do some magic, or

Re: Where is AS located after Binutils is installed?

Check the output of: port contents binutils On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: I installed binutils in an effort to get the updated assembler. But I can't seem to find it: $ sudo /opt/local/bin/port install binutils --- Computing dependencies for

Re: Am I supposed to use gem from MacPorts to install ruby packages in /opt/local/lib/ruby2.2/gems/2.2.0?

My ~/.gemrc includes: install: --no-ri --no-rdoc --user-install update: --no-ri --no-rdoc --user-install This directs gem to install inside my home folder rather than trying to install to a system or MacPorts location. Another bonus is that I don't have to use sudo. I still try install as much

Re: [MacPorts] #47189: submission: audacity

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:54 AM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few required components which are not in MacPorts and for which a local version is used: libsms, libsoxr, libvamp, portsmf and widgetextra. Audacity's configure script will detect and use the system versions

Re: [MacPorts] #47189: submission: audacity

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:20 PM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday March 18 2015 12:10:07 Arno Hautala wrote: So, no, there should be no fear of non-reproducible builds, at least not if I got in all the dependencies :) Regardless, I'd think the configure would still need

Re: Why the executable binary of the aria2 download manager is named aria2c?

From: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/aria2 The executable name for the aria2 package is aria2c. This legacy naming convention has been retained for backwards compatibility. I don't know what legacy naming convention they're referring to, but… that's why? On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:59

Re: Is trac.macports.org down?

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: why would homebrew pull the patch from trac.macports.org (instead of svn.macports.org)? Whoever wrote that brewfile probably copied the build configuration from MacPorts, or copied just the patch when it became an

Re: questions regarding selfupdate issue

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:45 AM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday November 13 2014 14:04:06 Clemens Lang wrote: one of the image tarballs. Some users do this in order to save space on an SSD, but doing so is wrong and dangerous. What, it's wrong and dangerous to make place

Re: Updating database of binaries step very slow under Yosemite?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:34 PM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I think it's a bit (much) overkill to scan all binaries when installing a new or upgrading an existing port. In principle MacPorts knows which ports depend on which other ports, and it knows what files a port

registry malformed after a kernel panic interrupted port build

I just upgraded to 2.3.1 and experienced a kernel panic while later upgrading ports. I'm fairly certain the panic was unrelated. Anyway, once booted I went to finish the port upgrades and found my registry.db is now corrupt. sqlite error: database disk image is malformed (11) while executing

Re: registry malformed after a kernel panic interrupted port build

good. Is there a reason that there isn't a journal for the registry.db? Or is there and I ran into some other issue? [1]: http://www.dosomethinghere.com/2013/02/20/fixing-the-sqlite-error-the-database-disk-image-is-malformed/ On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote

Re: Installing along Homebrew

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: Hi, Ideally it would check if the os already provides 1.9 and use that one if it does, else depend on whatever ruby is already installed by MP. Isn't that the type of non-reproduceable build that MacPorts tries to

Re: installed tree on Mavericks 10.9.2

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Ken G. Brown kbr...@mac.com wrote: Now that tree apparently is installed, how do I run it, where is the executable? The executable is probably installed at /opt/local/bin/tree You can check for sure using port contents tree Is there something I am missing in

Re: port command arguments

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:21 AM, René J.V. rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: An alias subsitution that replaces a certain argument of a given command regardless of what order arguments have been passed, and their order? I think this is indeed a feature of ZSH. -- arno s hautala/-|

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: - homebrew doesn't try as hard as MacPorts to make builds reproducible. If you install vim, it'll use the first python available. When that's system python it uses that, if it's homebrew python it'll use that (and if its

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: Also, consider the OS X startup progress bar, back when OS X had one: originally it was very accurate, but by Tiger it had been changed to just advance at a more or less constant rate regardless what was happening;

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: For less than 10 results, the following looks nice to my eyes: gt; port search git portversion description --- --- babl-devel 0.1.11-20140305 Babl is a library for

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Craig Treleaven ctrelea...@cogeco.cawrote: Our 'extra steps', seem to trip up at least half our new users. Another big one would be handling major OS upgrades more cleanly. I think the two issues are that MacPorts detects certain configurations upon install and

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Eric A. Borisch ebori...@macports.orgwrote: I wrote a little script for myself that goes and queries packages.macports.org and determines if a port will be built or use a package; it spits out a dot graph of dependencies colored by which is going to happen.

Re: list active ports with non-default variants

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht pixi...@macports.org wrote: Does anyone have a command for listing active ports with non-default variants? I'm not aware of any, but I'd love to find there is one. I usually end up dumping a list of installed ports to a file and then removing

Re: Where should non-macports sw be installed? (Was: Problem with Macports, homebrew, and ghostscript

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Gregory Shenaut gkshen...@ucdavis.edu wrote: I understand why installing in /usr/local can mess up macports, but macports doesn't have everything, and most third-party software wants to go into /usr/local. Where should this stuff go, if not /usr/local? I

Re: How to associate /opt/local/bin/bash with .bat files

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: Macs (and other Unix systems) don't associate files and their interpreters based on the filename extension. Only windows uses this method. That's not entirely true. Macs used to use File Type and Creator codes to associate

Re: Find which port a file is from?

port provides /path/to/file On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don't find a command that can show which port a file is from. This function is available in apt-get on ubuntu, I guess similar things should be available on macports. Could anybody let me

Re: Minimising MacPorts Internal Disk Usage

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:59 AM, René J.V. Bertin rjvber...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:33, Chris Jones wrote: port uninstall inactive I tried that once, and had to restore my whole installation tree from backup. I would be great if one could uninstall all old versions except

Re: Minimising MacPorts Internal Disk Usage

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: If you want to combine those two operations into a single command, it's: sudo port -u upgrade outdated Ah, good point. I don't recall why I had them split out like that. Restricting commands to single actions?

Re: Visualized MacPorts Ports

You might also look at this: http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/macports/macports-dependencies-overview On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Rainer Müller rai...@macports.org wrote: On 2013-07-03 18:16, Jean-François Caron wrote: I'm wondering if there is a MacPorts equivalent to the python-apt

Re: Correct crontab entry for port selfupdate port upgrade outdated

...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Where should I put these files and what commands shall be used to load them? On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: I use the following launchd task [1] and shell script [2] to automate weekly updates. You can remove the reference

Re: Python pip issue

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Ned Deily n...@acm.org wrote: Also make sure you don't have a permissions problem. If you did a sudo pip install, the created directories and files may not be world readable and executable. Check and, if necessary, alter the permissions of the packages you

Re: A growl about Growl (and NSAlert?)

I just wanted to note that while the Growl software is now sold on the AppStore, the source is still available. http://growl.info/documentation/developer/growl-source-install.php http://code.google.com/p/growl On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Feb

Re: encryption tool for Microsoft SkyDrive

You could use GPG and 'split'. You could also just create a sparse bundle Disk Image (the default band size is 8 MB) and put your files in that. Both options are going to rely on what is acceptable for your needs. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Markus Neuenschwander guanoape...@gmx.ch wrote:

Re: FreeBSD partition

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Raoul rm...@free.fr wrote: is there a way to mount WR or at least R a FreeBSD partition on osx 10.8XX??? I assume you're talking about a UFS partition. I wanted to do the same recently and while OS X should support UFS, I've found that there are two flavors

Re: Is Goldendict available for Macports?

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Gustavo Benedito Reis Costa gusbened...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to compile and run GoldenDict via Macports via terminal. I use Mac OS X 10.8.1 Mountain Lion. Is it available for Macports? If not, how to compile and install it? This may be best taken up

Re: Is Goldendict available for Macports?

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: I don't see any sort of documentation relating to how to compile anything. http://goldendict.org/buildfromgit.php In fact, their .gitignore file [2

Re: Monitoring Internet Usage

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht pixi...@macports.org wrote: Have you looked at vnstat? That would show bandwidth usage, but not on a per app basis. Ideally, this would be something like nethogs [1], but that's not compatible with OS X. LittleSnitch [2] and Rubbernet [3] are

Re: Monitoring Internet Usage

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: [...] Rubbernet [3] are options that show these stats, but I'm not sure if you can monitor their stats from across the network. [...] [3]: http://rubbernetapp.com/ Just wanted to clarify that looking at their site

-p considered problematic (was Re: how to proceed past errors?)

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jerem...@macports.org wrote: On Jul 26, 2012, at 09:41, Daniel J. Luke dl...@geeklair.net wrote: From the man page: -p Despite any errors encountered, proceed to process multiple ports and commands. That is

Re: -p considered problematic (was Re: how to proceed past errors?)

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org wrote: I don't think that's a problem with -p, however it will be more likely to manifest itself that way; it's more of a bug with the port that's allowing that opportunist linking or otherwise incorrectly declared

Re: -p considered problematic (was Re: how to proceed past errors?)

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jerem...@macports.org wrote: IIRC, the OP was talking about upgrade, not install. So in your case, you would have: port -p upgrade upgrade port-a This is problematic because port-a will be upgraded even through port-d failed.

Re: noidle

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Drechsel Wolf ed...@verkehrsplanung.com wrote: frequently I noticed that my iMac G5 will go to sleep during a time extensive build (gcc45 at the moment). pmset noidle This won't be of help to the G5, but Mountain Lion introduced a new command called

Re: What has MacPorts Installed for py27-iPython?

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin jimpaulgrif...@gmail.com wrote: I experienced a similar issue when I installed pyzor (not from Macports but build manually using the Macports installed python2.7) and the binary pyzord was installed in:

Re: binaries list

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org wrote: yes, but that would only work if a binary is available! Yes, but it'll do what you're after: letting you know if one is available. You can add -p if you want it go on and do what it can from a list of ports

Re: binaries list

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Gregory Seidman gsslist+macpo...@anthropohedron.net wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:09:17PM -0400, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: That's how it just works. Well, no, it doesn't just work. I want to issue a single port command, e.g. port upgrade outdated, and have it

Re: How to best clean old Perl installations directories

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Rodolfo Aramayo raram...@gmail.com wrote: /opt/local/lib/perl5/ I have the following directories: [...] Why where the Perl 5.12 directories not removed? Is there a safe way or proper way to removed these directories? Are those directories empty? Do you

Re: Port upgrade outdated no longer plays nice

On 6/11/12, Jasper Frumau jasperfru...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Dominik Reichardt domi...@gmail.comwrote: That just means there was nothing outdated to upgrade at the moment (I think this error message could use some fine tuning though). I see. Did not know that.

Re: archive_site_local [was: MacPorts 2.1.0 has been released]

On 5/15/12, C D macosx12...@yahoo.fr wrote: Then there might be a bug: following the procedure in https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/ShareArchives2, I have set up a local archive repository, which I access through the URL http://localhost:6227/ . When this URL is put into

Re: archive_site_local

On 5/15/12, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: Sounds like: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32018 So, is there a way to work around this? Maybe a way to escape the colon? Can you point me to why this is broken? What is it that MacPorts doesn't like about the :port convention? --

Re: How remove port info but not installed files?

On 2012-04-18, Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com wrote: What's the simplest way to get rid of the macports files from texlive and aysmpotote _WITHOUT_ disturbing the original files from the direct TeXLive 2011 installation? First off, have you experienced any problems with this

Re: How remove port info but not installed files?

On 2012-04-18, Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, it's space I want to conserve on my relatively small SSD boot drive. It's the original MacTeX TeXLive 2011 installation I want to keep -- and NOT the MacPorts version. (Various reasons for that preference, including a

Re: Can selfupdate be done incrementally

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 20:02, Tim Johnson t...@akwebsoft.com wrote: * O'Dell James j...@fpr.com [120406 13:21]: I have a macports update script and launchd plist that schedules an (self)update to run. I'd be happy to share if anyone wants them.  Please do. I'd love to see them.  TIA Since

Re: /usr/local question

On 2012-04-05, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: (The XXX is where my English fails me. Could a native speaker put the right verb in please that seems to slip my mind?) [...] While this could be XXXed off as the user's own error, it is a fact that written off as chalked up to dismissed as --

Re: Xcode 4.3.2 macports requirement (please add to FAQ)

On 2012-04-02, ximon xi...@ximon.karoo.co.uk wrote: Hmmm, After upgrading a little while ago to Xcode 4.3.1, I find I am unable to install the command line tools - an error message is displayed informing me that my developer account is not in good standing and needs to be updated. I

Re: A port is clashing with another program installed in /opt that is not a port

On 2012-04-02, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist already exists and does not belong to a registered port. Unable to activate port dbus. Use 'port -f activate dbus' to force the

Re: A port is clashing with another program installed in /opt that is not a port

On 2012-04-02, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Apr 2, 2012, at 08:33, Arno Hautala wrote: The dbus port does supply a +no_startupitem variant which should skip installing the launchd plist. The launchd task isn't started by default anyway and I think I recall that ports

Re: build/release libraries

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 01:52, Marko Vranic crow...@gmail.com wrote: Are mac ports libraries build in debug or in release mode?How can I get both kind? This is going to be on a port by port basis. Some offer debug as a variant, but most probably are just release. If there's a specific port

Re: noidle

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 19:05, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: building something with MacPorts is not being idle. I think this is debatable and would vary from user to user. At the least I'd want a way to disable any noidle behavior. Note that video players like VLC and Apple's

Re: Cleaning up stale dependencies

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 17:21, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: It works fine for me. Perhaps you have +python27 set in your variants.conf? (I don't.) If you do, then the behavior you see is expected. So I do. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming. -- arno  s 

Re: audio/sox update

I'm not in front of a Mac right now so I can't comment on the majority of these points, however: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:45, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: - drops the dependency on ffmpeg, which in turn depends on the  whole xorg-* world, thus turning a neat little audio app into  a

Re: audio/sox update

2012/1/24 Jan Stary h...@stare.cz: No; dirac only depends on cppunit. (Why would a video codec depend on a typesetting system?) Yep, as I prefixed my previous message, I'm not at a Mac right now and was basing my statements on my web search. I shouldn't have stopped with a 3 year old bug

Re: audio/sox update

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:17, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: We no longer want to use variants whose names begin with no_. http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#default_variants Yep, Jeremy set me straight regarding this in a message that I hadn't realized was off-list.

Re: audio/sox update

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:36, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: So I don't think ffmpeg brings anything usefull to SoX. If anyone is using it successfully, please report. I know I have sox installed at home, so I'll check in a few hours. I'm seeing the same behavior here

port issues (was Re: x264transcode failing in mkvtoonix)

On 2012-01-12, Craig Treleaven ctrelea...@cogeco.ca wrote: BTW, would there be any possibility of an enhancement to MacPorts to report known issues with a port and its dependants? Ie generate the list of dependencies for a port and query the trac database for any open tickets. aka port

Re: MacPorts-2.0.3 can’t be installed on this computer.

On 2012-01-11, Kristen McQuinn mcqu0...@umn.edu wrote: I followed the instructions to manually uninstall the files, but no files were found. Which files did you try to delete? You may indeed not have some of the files / folders that are listed. What commands did you enter in the Terminal to

Re: MacPorts-2.0.3 can’t be installed on this computer.

On 2012-01-11, Bradley Giesbrecht b...@pixilla.com wrote: Caution should be exercised if for example you user database file in /opt/local/var/db/mysql5 or user conf files in /opt/local/etc. I would suggest you first move /opt/local out of the way; then after you have the current MacPorts

Re: MacPorts-2.0.3 can’t be installed on this computer.

On 2012-01-11, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Jan 11, 2012, at 11:10, Arno Hautala wrote: It would probably be a good idea to add a note regarding this to the uninstall page. Already there: Ah, so it is. I was looking lower down on the page. And perhaps alter

Re: How can I control the Perl version I want?

Wouldn't perl need to be installed as perl5 +perl5_14 not perl5 @5.14.1_2? The default is activated by the variant given to the perl5 pseudo port. I think you'd only be able to run perl5 @ if the specified version had already been built, but was inactive. On 2012-01-05, Ryan Schmidt

Permission Denied with source installation

First off, I've already tried port clean. So I'm wondering if it's an issue specific to how I'm installing from source. I built and installed v2.0.3 using the following scripts: src_env.sh #!/bin/sh export MACPORTS=/Users/arno/Code/macports/development/macports export

Re: Permission Denied with source installation

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 20:42, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: You've installed MacPorts into your home directory, but are still using the macports user, which does not have permission to access things in your home directory. Either configure MacPorts to use a different user (for

Re: Permission Denied with source installation

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 22:31, Lawrence Velázquez larry.velazq...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 2, 2012, at 10:23 p.m., Arno Hautala wrote: Next time you try installing into your home directory, you might want to try ./configure --with-no-root-privileges Thanks for the tip. Though I think I recall

Re: gmail phishing warnings

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:22, Scott Webster sewebs...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com wrote: No. Nothing has been flagged about Mac Ports... Well, that is weird.  Every time you send a message to the list I get the big warning telling me

Re: Missing updated features?

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:11, Adam Dershowitz de...@alum.mit.edu wrote: One is that I still need sudo to run all my macports commands.  I believe that this should no longer be necessary. Does doing a selfupdate not create the new macport user? Does that have to be done manually or some

Re: [SPF:Probably_Forged] Re: Missing updated features?

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 13:12, Adam Dershowitz de...@alum.mit.edu wrote: At this point my ports are up to date. You could always uninstall, clean, and reinstall a small port to test. bash-completion would be a good option I think. -- arno  s  hautala    /-|   a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448

Re: Macports 2.0.3/Lion 10.7.2 Perl

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:39, Jason Lixfeld jason-macpo...@lixfeld.ca wrote: 1.  Is it normal for Macports to not use system Perl in this manner, or at least add to @INC to point to the module directories installed via ports? Yes, MacPorts, for the most part, selects to install its own

Re: Macports 2.0.3/Lion 10.7.2 Perl

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:11, Mr. Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: I had no idea... thanks for the above info. Now then, what is going on here? $port select --list perl Warning: Unable to get active selected version: The specified group 'perl' does not exist. Error: The 'list'

Re: Macports 2.0.3/Lion 10.7.2 Perl

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:45, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: Hmm, I was writing this from memory and I'm not at my Mac right now. Maybe there isn't a perl group? I'll write back when I'm in front of my machine and can check. Yep, turns out you don't use select for perl. Instead

Re: how to install old port subversion in tbz2?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 14:54, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: Then again nobody has publicly announced anything at all about archives yet, not even their existence. I have to say it seems just a little bit odd that MacPorts now will try to install ports by downloading

Re: iTerm2 does not start up on mac lion

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 14:01, Tim Johnson t...@akwebsoft.com wrote: I installed iTerm2 with macports. Installation showed no errors and no notes were available that I could see. When I attempt to start iTerm2, I get an icon on the dock, but it does not open. Any ideas about what I may have

Re: Can't install - 'Xcode is not installed..'

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 02:48, Dominik Reichardt domi...@gmail.com wrote: It's Apples fault for not taking care of this expectations mismatch, they should just initiate the installer after download (or give some dialog that this is just the installer and it needs to be run first). I think

Re: moving macports to a different location

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:54, Puneet Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping to simply copy the /opt tree to the new computer. However, the iMac has two disks, and I want to set up macports on /Volumes/extradrive/opt. My question -- can I, should I do this, and how? You could

Re: What is db46 and why is it such a pain?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 07:09, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: I meant ask you guys, what do you mean by this: Try renaming the downloaded patch files to have a .html extension and loading them in a browser. One of the possibilities when the patches fail the checksum is

Re: What is db46 and why is it such a pain?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:16, yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: How do I actually do the renaming? Copy the failing files from /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/db46/ to some other location (maybe your Desktop). Use the Finder to add .html to the end of each file you're going to check and drag

Re: Active version error

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 05:42, Frank J. R. Hanstick tro...@comcast.net wrote: Hello,        The following occurred during an upgrade: [snip] ---  Activating p5.12-scalar-list-utils @1.230.0_2 Error: Target org.macports.deactivate returned: Active version of p5-scalar-list-utils is not

Re: macports install fails on lion

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:35, rm...@free.fr wrote: on Lion, i installed xcode 4 for Lion from the connect.apple.com. Are you sure that you installed Xcode 4 from connect.apple.com? I thought it was only available from the Mac App Store. If you did actually install from the Mac App Store,

Multiple archive_site_local configurations?

Is it possible to list multiple archive_site_local values? I don't currently have the assets to test such an arrangement or I'd have simply tried it out. This is more of a hypothetical. -- arno  s  hautala    /-|   a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448 ___

Re: Sharing port archives

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:40, Matthias Pigulla m...@webfactory.de wrote: does https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/ShareArchives still apply after https://trac.macports.org/ticket/19458 has been closed? Looking at the history for the Wiki page, I think you've figured out your answer. How

Re: port fetch archives?

Excellent. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 06:18, Rainer Müller rai...@macports.org wrote: Yes, it is called 'port archivefetch'. -- arno  s  hautala    /-|   a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448 ___ macports-users mailing list

port fetch archives?

I've successfully enabled fetching archives from my desktop installation (Thanks!). Now, I wonder if there is an equivalent command to fetch those archives as there is to fetch the source package. I can already run something like port fetch outdated in order to grab all the source packages that

Re: Python 2.7

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 14:04, Thomas Gederberg tgederb...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Is python27 (Python 2.7) no longer on MacPorts.  I can't find it. I just ran port selfupdate and am still seeing python27 as version 2.7.2 ( port info python27 ). What OS, MacPorts, etc are you using and what

Syncing ports to another machine

Prior to 2.0 (congrats!) I'd been compiling pretty much every port I wanted to install on my desktop with Archive Mode enabled. I'd then rsync those archives to my laptop and install from there. MacPorts 2.0 however has changed the way that archives are used. Instead of storing the archives under

Re: Syncing ports to another machine

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 15:14, Joshua Root j...@macports.org wrote: You can set up macports.conf with something like: archive_site_local      http://mymac.local/path/to/archives and it will download the archives from there, if present. (It will fall back to building from source if they're

Re: Syncing ports to another machine

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 22:09, Joshua Root j...@macports.org wrote: There are some options that the common fetch code looks at, but they're not configurable globally and I don't think the right ones for scp are there. Relevant code if you're interested:

Re: Trickle bandwidth shaper

This post at Mac OS X Hints offers a possible solution for the poll issue, though the author states that they did not see any effect when using the resulting binary. Note that it includes a link to 1.07. http://hints.macworld.com/comment.php?mode=viewcid=65362 I then also had to change line 1006

Re: MacPorts 2.0.0-beta1 now available for testing

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:09, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: What is archive mode? Archive mode packages the destroot before installing and then stores this archive (as a tarball I think by default). You can then transfer these packages to another MacPorts installation

Re: register a handy-installed package as port installed

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 07:02, cao.xu cao...@rytong.com wrote:        I am a newbie of macports and find it quiet convenient. Now I have an erlang package with my own patches, and I have installed it into /opt/local .  How could I register it as port installed so other port packages depend on

Re: coreutils ls color (was: another question...)

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 23:54, Rodolfo Aramayo raram...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan, Alexander, Ok this is the deal. To solve the problem you need to add the following into your: /etc/profile or ~.profile == PS1='\[\e]1;My Desk\a\e]2;${PWD}\a\ \e[0;34m\]\ [\t][\u@MYCOMPUTERNAME]\n \#\$

Re: Transferring complete MacPorts prefix to other Mac (was: Two simple questions)

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 06:16, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On May 8, 2011, at 12:59, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: Say I set up a complex installation of MacPorts (i.e., tonos of different ports) using standard procedures (i.e., everything installed in the /opt/... directory) in an

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