James Secan wrote:
I have a number of apparently old/replaced ports (p5.26-*) that have been replaced
at some point by their p5.28-* updates that are still in some way “alive” on my
system. They show up when I run "port upgrade installed -u outdated” as
follows:
Warning: No port
To keep my ports up-to-date, I normally used the following about a once a week:
$ sudo port selfupdate
$ sudo port -u upgrade outdated
to which I now plan to add:
$ sudo port reclaim
You mention running ‘port -u uninstall’ before ‘port self update’. Is there
some reason to do that instead of
On Wed, 9 Mar 2022, Sriranga Veeraraghavan wrote:
> I have been using MacPorts for years and never knew about this. I just
> ran this on my system and it reclaimed nearly 2GB of space, which was
> awesome. Thank you so much for mentioning this!
"port reclaim" is part of the "port -u uninstall
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: mailer-dae...@yahoo.com
> Subject: Failure Notice
> Date: March 9, 2022 at 20:50:45 EST
> To: lenorehor...@sbcglobal.net
>
> Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.
>
> :
> 554: 5.7.1 Service unavailable
>
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(Resending, because I didn’t respond to the list) Just tried, and it listed
far too many ports as “Unrequested ports without requested dependents found”
along with the p5.26 ports for me to allow the wholesale deletion to go
forward. Looked like most of the ports I have installed.
I decided
I have been using MacPorts for years and never knew about this. I just ran
this on my system and it reclaimed nearly 2GB of space, which was awesome.
Thank you so much for mentioning this!
-ranga
> On Mar 9, 2022, at 15:42, Peter West wrote:
>
> Have you tried
> port reclaim
> ?
>
> —
>
Have you tried
port reclaim
?
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“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and
went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.”
> On 10 Mar 2022, at 9:13 am, James Secan wrote:
>
> I have a number of
I have a number of apparently old/replaced ports (p5.26-*) that have been
replaced at some point by their p5.28-* updates that are still in some way
“alive” on my system. They show up when I run "port upgrade installed -u
outdated” as follows:
Warning: No port p5.26- found in the index
The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version
2.7.2. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the
ChangeLog [1] for the list of changes.
If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for
updating is to run:
sudo port selfupdate
For new
