homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I am using homebrew at the moment, but there are certain packges, which are not on homebrew (e.g. awesome and kde apps). Therefore I am thinking abiout using these two package managers in parallel. I know this *can* cause problems, but is it likely to cause problems? What do I have to be

Install from HEAD instead current stable version?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I am looking for an easy way of installing the development version (HEAD) of grass. under homebrew, I can simply say , | brew install grass --HEAD ` to instal the development version instead of the stable one - is there something similar in port? Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer M.

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I am using homebrew at the moment, but there are certain packges, which are not on homebrew (e.g. awesome and kde apps). Therefore I am thinking abiout using these two package managers in parallel. I know this *can* cause problems,

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I am using homebrew at the moment, but there are certain packges, which are not on homebrew (e.g. awesome and kde apps). Therefore I am thinking abiout using these two package

Re: Install from HEAD instead current stable version?

2013-07-04 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 10:08:01AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: I am looking for an easy way of installing the development version (HEAD) of grass. under homebrew, I can simply say , | brew install grass --HEAD ` to instal the development version instead of the stable one

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 09:44:06AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: Therefore I am thinking abiout using these two package managers in parallel. I know this *can* cause problems, but is it likely to cause problems? What do I have to be aware about? Any experiences? Unfortunately it is

Re: Install from HEAD instead current stable version?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Clemens Lang c...@macports.org writes: Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 10:08:01AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: I am looking for an easy way of installing the development version (HEAD) of grass. under homebrew, I can simply say , | brew install grass --HEAD ` to instal the

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Clemens Lang c...@macports.org writes: Hi, On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 09:44:06AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: Therefore I am thinking abiout using these two package managers in parallel. I know this *can* cause problems, but is it likely to cause problems? What do I have to be aware about?

Re: Install from HEAD instead current stable version?

2013-07-04 Thread Clemens Lang
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:10:33AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: So then I would have to install grass as usual via , | port install grass ` Yes. and then upgrade it and specify to use HEAD to fetch - how can I do this? MacPorts has no way to do this from the command line like

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: I thought along the same lines - but I am thinking of trying to use awesome windows manager (macports only) and at the same time I am using offlineimap and notmuch which are installed via homebrew - so this wont

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: I thought along the same lines - but I am thinking of trying to use awesome windows manager (macports only) and at the same time I am using offlineimap and

Re: Install from HEAD instead current stable version?

2013-07-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Clemens Lang c...@macports.org writes: On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:10:33AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: So then I would have to install grass as usual via , | port install grass ` Yes. and then upgrade it and specify to use HEAD to fetch - how can I do this? MacPorts has no way

Re: Macports does what I want (?) not what I say

2013-07-04 Thread Aljaž Srebrnič
Well, the answer lies in this command: $ portrdeps percona-toolkit The following ports are dependencies of percona-toolkit @2.1.5_0+perl5_16: p5.16-time-hires perl5.16 gdbm gettext expat libiconv gperf ncurses p5.16-dbd-mysql

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 4, 2013, at 02:44, Rainer M Krug wrote: I am using homebrew at the moment, but there are certain packges, which are not on homebrew (e.g. awesome and kde apps). Therefore I am thinking abiout using these two package managers in parallel. I know this *can* cause problems, but is

Re: Macports does what I want (?) not what I say

2013-07-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 4, 2013, at 07:32, Enrico Placci wrote: I hope my email does not sound too whiney, my intention is to give constructive feedback, hopefully my frustration won't overshadow that. I'm writing you from a burning laptop, where macports decided to be too smart and did what it thought I

Re: Macports does what I want (?) not what I say

2013-07-04 Thread Enrico Placci
On 2013-07-04, at 13:44, Aljaž Srebrnič wrote: So, I either suggest running sudo port -cn upgrade percona-toolkit, or defining an alias like alias sp=sudo port -cn and using that. I hope this helps, Aljaž Thank you , it helps! I totally missed that. On 2013-07-04, at 13:57, Ryan

Re: Macports does what I want (?) not what I say

2013-07-04 Thread Chris Jones
Because they are direct or indirect dependencies of the port you asked to install or upgrade. But there is really no need to upgrade them, they already satisfy the dependency. This wasn't even too bad, after all, when I hit gtk I want to cry. oh but there is a need to upgrade all

Re: Macports does what I want (?) not what I say

2013-07-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 4, 2013, at 08:39, Enrico Placci wrote: On 2013-07-04, at 13:57, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 4, 2013, at 07:32, Enrico Placci wrote: So why would I want to upgrade ncurses @5.9_1 to @5.9_2 gettext @0.18.2_1 to @0.18.2.1_0 perl @5.12.4_1+dtrace to @5.12.4_2+dtrace zlib @1.2.7_0

Re: Macports does what I want (?) not what I say

2013-07-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 4, 2013, at 09:01, Rainer Müller wrote: I want to share an unobvious feature of bash with you that helps in situations like this. Quoting the man page: If the last character of the alias value is a blank, then the next command word following the alias is also checked for alias

Re: homebrew and macports together?

2013-07-04 Thread Eneko Gotzon Ares
Great job! Thanks! On 4 Jul 2013, at 11:07, Clemens Lang wrote: I am working on a mechanism built into port to prevent problems with homebrew or fink co-installed on the same machine -- Eneko Gotzon Ares ___ macports-users mailing list