Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread Simon Wheatley
Is it possible to point MacPorts at a downloaded package of some kind and say install that? Something similar to Debian's 'dpkg -i'? Thanks. S ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread Anders F Björklund
Simon Wheatley wrote: Is it possible to point MacPorts at a downloaded package of some kind and say install that? Something similar to Debian's 'dpkg -i'? Not at the moment... You can build a package (pkg/rpm/deb), but then it doesn't integrate with the already installed ports and registry

Re: Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On 14/mag/08, at 09:59, Simon Wheatley wrote: Is it possible to point MacPorts at a downloaded package of some kind and say install that? Something similar to Debian's 'dpkg -i'? If you're trying to avoid the need of an internet connection you could just get the tarballs and put them in

Re: mysql server problems

2008-05-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, So my question is: what have I done wrong installing the mysql5 db? Which actions can I take to get it running? Not sure what went wrong... Not sure why those files ended up owned by root instead of the mysql user, since you used sudo -u mysql that should have worked. If that's the

Several errors building gnutls

2008-05-14 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, (Running MacBook Pro, with latest Leopard and MacPorts, and Xcode 3.0.) I built gnutls yesterday, because I thought mutt might need it for smtp authentication (no such luck!). In doing that, I got several errors and I'm not sure why. The first was that libgcrypt couldn't find

Re: Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread Robert Liesenfeld
On May 14, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: On 14/mag/08, at 09:59, Simon Wheatley wrote: Is it possible to point MacPorts at a downloaded package of some kind and say install that? Something similar to Debian's 'dpkg -i'? If you're trying to avoid the need of an internet

Re: Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 14, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Robert Liesenfeld wrote: I think this is what the port fetch portname command does, isn't it? yep, although it's possible for variants to alter which files are fetched, so you have to be a little careful if you want to make sure you get all the files that you

Re: Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread Rainer Müller
Robert Liesenfeld wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: If you're trying to avoid the need of an internet connection you could just get the tarballs and put them in appropriate folders in distfiles dir. I think this is what the port fetch portname command does, isn't

Re: Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread paul beard
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:39:48 +0200 From: Anders F Bj?rklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Manual install To: Simon Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: liste gtk macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Message-ID: [EMAIL

Re: Several errors building gnutls

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Pickel
On 14 May, 2008, at 17:38, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: If I may ask, does this indicate that my MacPorts installation is flawed somehow, because these files weren't being found? We can't really know without more thorough information. The

Re: Manual install

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 14, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: The reason I ask is that a. it would be very useful to have this feature, especially on systems without a lot of horsepower (given the high degree of standardization on this hardware, why compile anything yourself, if a compile farm exists