Re: OS upgrading tips to minimise overhead (rebuilding etc)

Hi, On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 06:51:47PM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > I was just informed that Firefox will break the sync function in older > versions of its browser, including the 78 esr I've been using for the > past years. It seems that might finally motivate me to upgrade my MBP > to the

Re: Borg backup is complaining about msgpack python package version

Hi again, On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 01:45:46PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 10:42:25PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > You do not have a supported version of the msgpack python package > > installed. Terminating. > > This should never happen as specifi

Re: Borg backup is complaining about msgpack python package version

Hi, On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 10:42:25PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > You do not have a supported version of the msgpack python package > installed. Terminating. > This should never happen as specific, supported versions are required > by our setup.py. > Do not contact borgbackup support about

Re: NCDU Fails b/c Zig

Hi, On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 06:57:51PM -0500, Curtis Matz wrote: > I have a M3 iMac and wondering if there was a workaround on fixing Zig > so I can install ncdu? Install the gdu port. It does the same thing, is written in Go, uses essentially the same UI as ncdu, and is also optimized for SSDs

Re: PostgeSQL problem

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 11:59:46AM +, Bill Hill via macports-users wrote: > Hi, > I've run a MacPorts update, and now postgres is broken. > I did: > sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade outdated && sudo port -N reclaim > which upgraded about a dozen ports, the only ones of which I

Re: vim update

Hi, On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 04:07:05PM -0700, ppadil...@gmail.com wrote: > Trying to update vim to the latest update that I saw today in macports.  > Unfortunately it fails to patch: > > Error: Failed to patch vim: command execution failed > Error: See >

Re: OpenSSL version mismatch

Hi, On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 09:47:58PM +, Fielding, Eric J (US 329A) via macports-users wrote: > I had a strange error today when I tried to use the “ssh” that is > installed on my Mac with MacPorts: ‘OpenSSL version mismatch. Built > against 3080, you have 3010’ > > I think I might

Re: [mysterious owner of 'libc++.1.dylib']

Hi, On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 06:00:44PM +, Maxim Abalenkov wrote: > Further inquiry with ‘pkgutil’ doesn’t shed more light either: > > pkgutil --file-info "/usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib" > volume: / > path: /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib > > Would you please tell me, who is the mysterious owner of

Re: MacPorts borg is broken?

Hi, On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 10:25:33PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > A script that I wrote which calls borg reported the following: > *** > You do not have a supported version of the msgpack python package > installed. Terminating. > This should never happen as

Re: Co-existance of MacPorts and Brew?

Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 02:54:40PM -0500, André-John Mas wrote: > What is the current status of co-existence of Brew and MacPorts on the > same machine? Previously this was meant to be a problem. It's less of a problem these days on Apple Silicon, because Homebrew moved away from /usr/local,

Re: the future of port:audacity

Hi again, On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 07:43:43PM +0100, Clemens Lang wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 01:53:20PM -0500, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via > macports-users wrote: > > I looked at the Audacity website, https://www.audacityteam.org . It > > looks like Audacity is

Re: the future of port:audacity

Hi, On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 01:53:20PM -0500, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-users wrote: > I looked at the Audacity website, https://www.audacityteam.org . It > looks like Audacity is in robust current maintenance, sources are > available, and legacy and modern Mac OS versions are

Re: What is "ghc" and why was it installed?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 04:08:25AM +, Fielding, Eric J (US 329A) via macports-users wrote: > I was running “port selfupdate” and “port upgrade outdated” for the > first time in a while, and I noticed that my Intel MacBook Pro was > spending almost an hour compiling a port called “ghc” that I

Re: Where is port command documented?

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 09:14:26AM +, Lukas Oberhuber wrote: > The following versions of gimp3 are currently installed: > 1) gimp3 @2.99.14_0+debugoptimized+quartz+vala > 2) gimp3 @2.99.13_1+debugoptimized+quartz+vala (active) > Enter option(s) [1-2/all]: > > This kills my script. What I

Re: MacPorts for Ventura expects Xcode 14.1

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 02:58:36PM -0400, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > Is the advisable solution to go ahead and install Xcode 14.1 RC2 along > with the corresponding Command Line tools (from developer.apple.com)? Yes. HTH, Clemens

Re: Error with 'port -vst install'

Hi, On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 09:16:50PM +0200, Pieter van Oostrum wrote: > Although your suggestion solved the problem for me, I have another > followup. > > I found this ticket, which describes the same problem: > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53435 It is six years old and it is > marked as

Re: Port upgrade outdated

On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Raoul MEGELAS wrote: > You have understood well, I was getting the message repeatedly. I believe this happens when you request installation of multiple ports on the command line, i.e. port install portA portB portC may ask up to three times. If you

Re: Error with 'port -vst install'

Hi, On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 01:55:10PM +0200, Pieter van Oostrum wrote: > It fails to create the directory > '/opt/local/var/macports/sip-workaround/502/usr'. In fact on a > previous run it failed to create > '/opt/local/var/macports/sip-workaround/502' and then I created that > directory

Re: Does the migration procedure keep ports versions?

Hi, On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 09:58:04AM +0200, Ces VLC wrote: > I'm planning an update of a High Sierra MBP up to Monterey, and I > didn't find an explicit mention in the migration docs ( > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration) about if the described > procedure keeps the ports versions or

Re: Can I disable progress bars?

Hi, On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 10:01:11AM +0100, Lukas Oberhuber wrote: > I've now run into the opposite problem, which is "Too long with no > output (exceeded 10m0s): context deadline exceeded". If you need regular output, I'd just recommend running macports in verbose mode, i.e. port -v install …

Re: Can I disable progress bars?

Hi Lukas, On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 03:58:08PM +0100, Lukas Oberhuber wrote: > I’m running macports on a server where the progress bars when building > from source fill up the output log (new full line for each update). Is > there a way to silence the progress bar? The relevant code checks -

Re: macOS 12.3 and /usr/bin/python. Status?

Hi, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 03:16:21PM +0200, Gerben Wierda via macports-users wrote: > I’m about to take the plunge and move one of my systems to macOS 12.3 > (which removes /usr/bin/python). I am going to consider that a > MacPorts major migration (so following the migration instructions). >

Re: During Migration to Arm64 mac, should I null out archs='x86_64' from installed ports list?

Hi, On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 04:10:26PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Apr 14, 2022, at 14:34, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > Once you do step 2, the port command works again (and you should > > follow the rest of the instructions, but if you're prepared to live > > with the consequences of things

Re: curl and openSSL

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 02:16:08PM -0700, James Secan wrote: > It’s a US Gov’t site (NASA): cddis.nasa.gov. I’m accessing data on > their Space Geodesy Data archive, pulling files from directory > archive/gnss/products/ionex. I filed an initial complaint with them > yesterday before I knew in

Re: curl and openSSL

Hi, On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 09:17:03AM -0700, James Secan wrote: > I switched from using the macOS-supplied curl to MacPorts curl > recently, and one of my download scripts which uses curl immediately > stopped working. The error message from curl was: > > curl: (35) error:0A000152:SSL

Re: Issues installing p7zip

Hi, On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:46:04PM -0400, André-John Mas wrote: > Warning: Error parsing file /opt/local/share/git-gui/lib/Git > Gui.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish: Error opening or reading file I've also recently started to get this, I don't know why. Deactivating and activating the git port

Re: Add CA certificates to OpenSSL chain

Hi, On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 09:54:20AM -0600, Gregory Anders wrote: > Does MacPorts provide a mechanism for adding certificates to the MP > version of OpenSSL? No. > My system keychain contains some certificates used by my work proxy, > which are (obviously) not in the default CA bundle

Re: mp stats by category

Hi, On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 11:30:00PM -0500, Jean-François Caron wrote: > I was curious about the most-popular game installation from MacPorts, > but the public website with the stats is pretty minimal: > https://ports.macports.org/statistics/ports/ > > Is there a way to access the underlying

Re: after `sync -d`, installed versions are too new

chive/html/lilypond-devel/ > It would be great if those features could be activated. If that's a standard feature of mailman and you can point me to the necessary setting I can look into enabling this. -- Clemens Lang

Re: @rpath in dylib

Hi, On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 01:32:48PM -0800, Ken Cunningham wrote: > Many distros, including MacPorts, have avoided @rpath usage in their > port trees except for certain circumstances (relocatable bundles, > etc). > > It’s hard to know just what library is being found to be used, and > it’s

Re: YouTube-DL is no more

Hi, On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:20:56AM -0800, Dave C via macports-users wrote: > The YouTube-DL github page was taken down per DMCA request. It has since been restored, likely also due to the public outcry over the overreaching DMCA request referencing a decision by a German court famous for a

Re: Compiling a port statically

Hi, On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 05:32:12PM -0500, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > So on macOS, if you're worried more about breakage in the absence of > shared libraries than in updated-ness/correctness, you can IN > PRINCIPLE statically link with non-OS libraries, and only dynamically > link with the

Re: github portal hacked?

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:24:47AM -0400, Lenore Horner wrote: > I was going to file a bug for gnucash 4.1 because even after a clean, > it fails to build, but when I clicked the github login button from the > macports page https://trac.macports.org/search?q=gnucash >

Re: Is It Safe To Use reclaim?

Hi Michael, On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 09:18:46AM +0700, Michael Newman via macports-users wrote: > Late last year I ran reclaim for the first time. It was somewhat of a > disaster because it removed ports that I actually wanted and I ended > up having to completely reinstall MacPorts. > > Since

Re: MacPorts and mounted file systems

Hi, On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 12:56:04PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > I know that MacPorts is not happy with symlinks, but how about a > separate file system e.g. a mounted /opt? It should work just fine. > In other words, does MacPorts use any hard links outside itself? They > will fail if the

Re: compiler warning

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 08:28:37PM -0700, Al Varnell via macports-users wrote: > Maybe I’m missing something obvious here, but why isn’t the list configured > IAW RFC 2369 instead? Quoting from the headers of your mail: | List-Id: MacPorts general user support and discussion | |

Re: I'm already using Homebrew for a couple of things, Is it problematic to use Homebrew and MacPorts side by side?

hide files in /usr/local (and other locations that shouldn't exist on a "clean" system) from the build. Your builds will be slower, but they will be less likely to fail. -- Clemens Lang

Re: port-tclsh script for checking if tests exist

.0/porttest.tcl#L16 [4] https://github.com/macports/macports-base/blob/master/src/port1.0/porttest.tcl#L34 HTH, -- Clemens Lang

Re: [GSOC] Request for feedback for the new web application

Hi, On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 11:24:23PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > The application written by Arjun made a decent progress so far and is > available under a temporary URL: > http://ec2-52-34-234-111.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/ > > We would be extremely happy for any feedback you

Re: "Fetching archive" fails for all ports on multiple systems, different networks

Hi, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:53:51AM -0600, Lee Finn wrote: > The log file at > > is attached: I'd agree that this seems like a problem with your network, especially since - you get the same response for all mirrors - the response is always 403 OK (which is weird, because 403 should be

Re: xpra

Hi, On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 08:31:54AM -0500, S. L. Garwood via macports-users wrote: > I saw a blog on xpra .. an html5 based terminal access tool … its up > and running in my Linux Mint system. Has anyone looked at porting it > to MacPorts? If not I may take a whack at it. AFAIK XPra forwards

Re: Is it possible to uninstall MacPorts without doing a migration?

Hi, On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 08:31:32PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > On 3 Jun 2018, at 8:23 pm, Evan Biederstedt > > wrote: > > > > I'm currently using MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5. I would like to uninstall > > MacPorts on my macbook. > > > > Based on the instructions here: > > > >

Re: problem installing gnureadline

Hi, On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:44:50PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > But if one erases everything along the > > > > https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html > > > > what is the use to run macports uninstall ? Isn’t everything wiped > > out once /opt/local is

Re: MacPorts 2.4.3 has been released

> 2018-04-12T03:16:18+ + > RBASE_OLD_REV=68708e1c5e2a4f21afa95e733c5d34cd0f5c71de Can you remove the -q flag and/or retry running git fetch? That should give us an idea what went wrong here. -- Clemens Lang

Trac upgraded to 1.2

Hi everyone, Our Trac installation at trac.macports.org was updated to the 1.2 series of Trac. Since this was a feature upgrade, new bugs may have sneaked in. If you see something that used to work before and no longer works now, please file a ticket with the trac component. See the Trac

Re: Installing gcc6 on a PPC Mac Mini 10.4 gives me hell

Hi, On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 06:59:01PM +, Christopher Jones wrote: > If it where my choice, I would drop OSX releases < say 10.10… It > isn’t, and thats fine, but thats just my opinion. In case you were not aware, that's more or less our policy. We officially support current - 3, that's

Re: index warning and bash-completion

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 09:24:27PM +0100, db wrote: > On 10 Mar 2018, at 20:05, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > Are your port definitions in fact more than two weeks old? > > Yes, but I'd expect the warning after I actually ran the command. Unfortunately that happens because

Re: distfile downloads failing on https

Hi Jan, On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 08:14:13PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > If I am reading > https://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.phases.html right, there > is are no "fetch dependencies". Would it make sense to introduce fetch > dependencies just like we have build dependencies and run >

Re: Fail to install git from macports ("can't find file to patch" error)

_max_install_names linker flag (which MacPorts does by default). -- Clemens Lang

Re: scp ignores case in filenames?

Hi, On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 03:53:15PM +0100, db wrote: > But since this is MacPorts, I wonder if anyone has had problems > specifically with a port not working and crashing. Remember that our buildbots use case-sensitive HFS, so we would usually notice if a port fails to build due to

Re: trace mode by default

Hi, On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 02:42:06PM +0100, db wrote: > I gave it a try just to see where it would stop or what clues would I > get in the logs and it didn't even extract, although from a glimpse > into porttrace.tcl the program used (AFAIR) should have been in the > allowed system directories.

Re: macports open-source games - any suggestions for missing ports?

Hi Ken, On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 11:40:40AM -0800, Ken Cunningham wrote: > I’m curious if there are any suggestions or requests for something > currently missing from MacPorts that people would like to see. openttd needs a minor update, if you have time. openrct2 would be nice to have, even

Re: files manually installed in $prefix

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 08:50:18PM +, db wrote: > How can I get files manually installed in $prefix? I'm asking out of > curiosity. I suppose I could get them by ownership if it wasn't > modified or, less practically, by uninstalling installed and checking > for remnants. Comparing recursive

Re: sourceforge.net - gsmartcontrol 1.1.1 now available

Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:04:36AM +, FritzS - gmx wrote: > Hi, > please make an update from gsmartcontrol 1.0.2 to gsmartcontrol 1.1.1 > > gsmartcontrol 1.0.2 > https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name=gsmartcontrol > > gsmartcontrol 1.1.1 >

Re: OpenSSL with option enable-tlsext

e you would expect? That might allow me to pinpointing what's wrong. Hi, -- Clemens Lang

Re: OpenSSL with option enable-tlsext

Hi, On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 02:21:13AM +, Bill Christensen wrote: > Does OpenSSL install with the enable-tlsext extension, or do I need to > do something special to get that to kick in? If you're asking whether our version of OpenSSL supports Server Name Indication, the answer is yes. --

Re: Anyone successfully install "meld"? Failed on gstreamer1-gst-plugins-bad

ub.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/20dd35b3147ff00c1fa0f1b7f17625301baa4883 Upstream for the problem is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786250. -- Clemens Lang

Re: macports' hardlinks and time machine backups

hardlinks. We now keep the pristine state in archives in /opt/local/var/macports/software instead of hardlinking everything from there. -- Clemens Lang

Re: svn server problem?

Hi, On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 09:06:08PM -0400, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > With a browser, the URL with the @## suffix seems to redirect to > https://trac.macports.org/changeset/86927/contrib/MacPorts_Framework > while without the suffix, it at least comes up on a much plainer page. Yes. We

Re: svn server problem?

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:24:05PM -0400, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > svn co > https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/MacPorts_Framework@86927 > svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL > 'https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/MacPorts_Framework' >

Re: how to uninstall macport with OS conflict ?

Hi, On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 01:06:05PM +0200, f...@talgorn.me wrote: > The question is: How can I totally remove macport in this context ? Run the MacPorts installer for your new OS (yes, I know it's counter-intuitive), then follow the uninstall instructions. It should only take a couple of

Re: 'port definitions old' even after git pull

it be a good git-pull hook > to have it done automatically? Change your habits to run 'sudo port sync' (or 'sudo port -v sync'). The sync action solves exactly this problem, no need to re-invent it. -- Clemens Lang

Re: Error in port selfupdate

Hi, On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 04:36:22PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Images-to-archives is an ancient upgrade process. It shouldn't do > anything anymore, unless your MacPorts installation hasn't been > updated in many, many years. So it's not a big problem that it's not > completing.

Re: set port not to upgrade

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:03:21PM +0100, db wrote: > How can I mark a port to not be upgraded by `port upgrade outdated`, > for example, one that has a bug in my system version? 'outdated' will be default not include ports that have a newer version than the currently activated one installed (but

Re: Port Diagnose Issue - [FAILED] - dylib

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:38:43PM -0600, Christopher Stone wrote: > Although I wonder if the error message shouldn't provide the trac > link: > > --- > Warning: found dylibs in your /usr/local/lib directory.

Re: Port Diagnose Issue - [FAILED] - dylib

Hi, On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:48:50AM -0600, Christopher Stone wrote: > Here's the warning/failure notice: > > --- > Warning: found dylibs in your /usr/local/lib directory. These are known to > cause

Re: Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

Hi, On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 05:37:41PM +, Barry Scott wrote: > > On 30 Jan 2017, at 12:44, Barry Scott wrote: > > > > When I run the postinstall as me it works are intended for my > > .bash_profile. When I run via sudo it looks at root’s file and > > states tit does

Re: Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

Hi, On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:33:04PM +, Barry wrote: > Can I run the .pkg without damaging my current MacPorts setup? Yes, unless you're at a newer version than the .pkg will install. > Its taken some effort eo have inkscape etc installed Ports will be kept as-is. Running the installer

Re: Prevent MacPorts editing .bash_profile over and over again...

Hi, On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 02:13:12PM +, Barry wrote: > I have been using the .pkg to reinstall MacPorts. I guess that does > not check. It does. Specifically, the check checks what your user's shell is using /usr/bin/dscl . -read "/Users/${USER}" shell | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}'

Re: MacPorts 2.4.0 has been released

Hi, On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 04:28:46PM -0500, Adam Dershowitz wrote: > Got it. I was not comfortable running it, without knowing that. Now, > I see that it is not at irreversible, without asking first. That sounds like something we should point out in the documentation. The source of the

Re: PowerMac download statistics?

Hi, On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 04:48:37PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I'm looking for statistics on the number of Macports users and the > number of PowerMac users. > > Does MacPorts track the statistics? If so, are they publicly > available? I think portmgr@ has access to our CDN's statistics,

Re: Macports needs a little marketing ....

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 08:26:21PM +0100, Bachsau wrote: > Stable, as I see it, means every port in every available variant > builds out of the box That alone is not testable. For example, the nginx port has 32 variants. For each variant, you can either enable it, or not, so for each variant you