Re: Build servers offline due to failed SSD

2021-03-08 Thread Lothar Haeger
Here‘s an in depth discussion on SSD reliability, a little more detailed than „(not) recommended“ from someone with a lot of first hand experience, it seems: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-reliable-are-ssds/

Re: macOS 11 Big Sur and MacPorts

2020-11-15 Thread Lothar Haeger
Same here: installing XCode and opening it once seems to install command line tools. At least they are listed in Preferences as installed (at the same path as XCode.app). Seems as if no separate install is required with 12.x anymore. > Am 16.11.2020 um 06:41 schrieb Wahlstedt Jyrki : > >  >

Re: How can I install an older version of a port _and_ similarly old versions of all of the ports's dependencies?

2020-08-20 Thread Lothar Haeger
You could probably check out the port tree from 2018 into a local folder and use that in sources.conf as the only entry. > Am 20.08.2020 um 18:34 schrieb Wowfunhappy : > > Hello! > > I'm running Mavericks, because I want to and it's my favorite OS. > Sometimes—understandably—things break on

Re: github portal hacked?

2020-08-04 Thread Lothar Haeger
You may want to ask Avast this question. FWIW: the link works for me (FireFox on macOS) and logs me into Trac via Github as expected.

Re: Port install never uses packages, always compiles from source - why?

2020-04-11 Thread Lothar Haeger
> If you change a setting in macports.conf, you should uninstall and reinstall > any ports affected by that setting. Ryan, thank a lot for the explanations and the guide to selectively reinstall! Worked like a charm and after using MP for years I now actually experience how much faster

Re: Port install never uses packages, always compiles from source - why?

2020-04-11 Thread Lothar Haeger
> If you think about it for a moment you will realize there is no way to use > the prebuilt binaries with non-standard installation options. Application bundles are supposed to be self contained and movable, afaik, and I would expect those built by macports to be that, too. > From >

Re: Port install never uses packages, always compiles from source - why?

2020-04-11 Thread Lothar Haeger
> The prebuilt ports on the buildbot are not building their ports to go into > /Applications, so therefore they don’t match your setup — so you can’t use > them (even though many would be OK, it’s an all-or-nothing thing. Ok, so what if I want to change back to the default and set

Re: Port install never uses packages, always compiles from source - why?

2020-04-11 Thread Lothar Haeger
> One thing that I've learned (thanks to people like Ryan and you etc) is to > *never* touch MacPorts unless you are aware of the consequences. It's not > that it's fragile -- far from it -- it's just that there are few > user-serviceable parts inside. Well, thats the point: the conf files

Port install never uses packages, always compiles from source - why?

2020-04-10 Thread Lothar Haeger
So I was wondering why it seems "port install" is always end up building from source on my machine and came across this in archive_sites.conf: > # prefix: The prefix of the MacPorts installation used to create the > # source's archives. This must match the value of "prefix" set in > #