Re: how to delete deactivated ports

2008-03-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 20, 2008, at 00:04, J P Lewis wrote: (a novice question) I installed a package (py25-matplotlib), had some trouble with using it, then did a port selfupdate, then upgraded the package. In the process, a number of packages were deactivated. For example, it looks like I now

Re: how to delete deactivated ports

2008-03-20 Thread Charlse Darwin
I have a shell script that I run when I go to bed called good-night and part of it that pertains to Macports goes like this: #!/opt/local/bin/bash cd ~/base/ /opt/local/bin/svn update PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/ bin:/usr/sbin ./configure --enable-readline /usr/bin/make /opt/ local/bin/sudo

Re: how to delete deactivated ports

2008-03-20 Thread skip
Charlse I have a shell script that I run when I go to bed called Charlse good-night and part of it that pertains to Macports goes like Charlse this: ... Charlse Your thoughts please. My only thought would be to wrap the lines suitably: #!/opt/local/bin/bash cd

Re: how to delete deactivated ports

2008-03-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 20, 2008, at 07:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charlse I have a shell script that I run when I go to bed called Charlse good-night and part of it that pertains to Macports goes like Charlse this: ... Charlse Your thoughts please. My only thought would be to

Re: how to delete deactivated ports

2008-03-20 Thread paul beard
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish you wouldn't indiscriminately use the -f (force) flag all the time. If it were intended to be used all the time it would have been made the default. In particular it should only be needed for port -f uninstall

how to delete deactivated ports

2008-03-19 Thread J P Lewis
Hello, (a novice question) I installed a package (py25-matplotlib), had some trouble with using it, then did a port selfupdate, then upgraded the package. In the process, a number of packages were deactivated. For example, it looks like I now have two copies of python25, numpy, 3 copies of

Re: how to delete deactivated ports

2008-03-19 Thread paul beard
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM, J P Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, (a novice question) I installed a package (py25-matplotlib), had some trouble with using it, then did a port selfupdate, then upgraded the package. In the process, a number of packages were deactivated. For