Re: Pruning old Perl installs

2020-04-06 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Apr 2020, at 22:23, Kieran Simpson wrote: I'm going through my ports installation and pruning out old versions. I've cleared out a few Python installs and now Perl is getting the same treatment. However I've gotten stuck and am not sure on the best way to proceed without breaking

Re: Pruning old Perl installs

2020-04-06 Thread raf
Kieran Simpson wrote: > I'm going through my ports installation and pruning out old versions. I've > cleared out a few Python installs and now Perl is getting the same > treatment. However I've gotten stuck and am not sure on the best way to > proceed without breaking something. > > $ port

Re: Pruning old Perl installs

2020-04-06 Thread Ryan Schmidt
In future please write to our new list addresses at lists.macports.org, not the old addresses that we retired in late 2016. They still forward to the new addresses but not all users are able to receive those forwards due to restrictions imposed by their email service providers. On Apr 6,

Pruning old Perl installs

2020-04-06 Thread Kieran Simpson
I'm going through my ports installation and pruning out old versions. I've cleared out a few Python installs and now Perl is getting the same treatment. However I've gotten stuck and am not sure on the best way to proceed without breaking something. $ port installed perl* The following ports are

Re: Ubuntu 18.04.4 on older Apple hardware

2020-04-06 Thread James Linder
> On 6 Apr 2020, at 8:00 pm, macports-users-requ...@lists.macports.org wrote: > > Initially I burned the 64bit Ubuntu 18 version, but it wouldn't boot on my > 32bit EFI Mac. > > There was no 32bit version of Ubuntu 18.04.4 that I saw, so I booted the > Ubuntu 16.x 32bit version without

Re: EXSi

2020-04-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Daniel J. Luke wrote: What is ESXi? VMware's hypervisor (you can read more by typing 'ESXi' into google and clicking the first link ;-) ) Top link on DuckDuckGo as well :-) I happen to value my privacy... -- Dave

Re: EXSi

2020-04-06 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Apr 6, 2020, at 5:06 PM, Michael wrote: >> Did you try a current version of macOS on top of ESXi? I'd be curious if >> anyone has tested this setup and how is the performance. > > What is ESXi? VMware's hypervisor (you can read more by typing 'ESXi' into google and clicking the first link

Re: EXSi

2020-04-06 Thread Michael
> Did you try a current version of macOS on top of ESXi? I'd be curious if > anyone has tested this setup and how is the performance. What is ESXi? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce

Re: Is SSL really a dependant of everything?

2020-04-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
Was just communing with nature, and I see that "clang" finally got built; it's now hammering on "gnutls" so I may as well go back to bed and pick up the debris in the morning... -- Dave

Re: Is SSL really a dependant of everything?

2020-04-06 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 6, 2020, at 03:39, Christopher Jones wrote: > On 6 Apr 2020, at 8:42 am, Dave Horsfall wrote: > >> On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> You should not routinely use the -p flag like this. >> >> I did that following advice on this list about a year ago, when some port >>

Re: Is SSL really a dependant of everything?

2020-04-06 Thread Christopher Jones
> On 6 Apr 2020, at 8:42 am, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> You should not routinely use the -p flag like this. > > I did that following advice on this list about a year ago, when some port > ("guile"?) that I'd never even heard of would not build. >

Re: Is SSL really a dependant of everything?

2020-04-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote: You should not routinely use the -p flag like this. I did that following advice on this list about a year ago, when some port ("guile"?) that I'd never even heard of would not build. Do you mean openssl? or libressl? or something else?

Re: Is SSL really a dependant of everything?

2020-04-06 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 6, 2020, at 00:21, Dave Horsfall wrote: > So this morning I do my weekly "port selfupdate" and "port upgrade -p > outdated" (I use "-p" to make it keep going with the rest of the ports, come > hell or high water), You should not routinely use the -p flag like this. > and after