Re: Reclaim was not 'safe'

2021-05-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 9, 2021, at 17:07, Gerben Wierda wrote: > I relied on the fact that man page/help of reclaim said it would not remove > active installs. So, having read that, I assumed it was unable to damage the > running setup and I assumed it would only remove everything inactive, compile >

Re: state of libressl in macports

2021-05-10 Thread Ryan Schmidt
You've summed up the situation nicely. On May 9, 2021, at 21:18, Kastus Shchuka wrote: > Macports has ports of both openssl and libressl but they are mutually > exclusive as they install overlapping files. Binary precompiled packages are > built with openssl, so folks using libressl have to

Re: state of libressl in macports

2021-05-10 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 10, 2021, at 7:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Is macports as a project going to drop support for libressl? (Several linux >> distros, e.g. gentoo and void, did it recently). >> It would be nice to have libressl in macports, but if the project does not >> have resources to support it,

Re: state of libressl in macports

2021-05-10 Thread Kastus Shchuka
Thanks Ryan! I have filed https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62858 for rust. > On May 10, 2021, at 4:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > You've summed up the situation nicely. > > > On May 9, 2021, at 21:18, Kastus Shchuka wrote: > >> Macports has ports of both openssl and libressl but they are

Re: Reclaim was not 'safe'

2021-05-10 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Too late now, but IMO, if it had been three state (tag absent as well as unrequested and requested values) from the first introduction of that tag, and automatic assignment of "unrequested" was conservative enough, then one wouldn't have to tag everything one wanted to keep as requested. In

Re: Reclaim was not 'safe'

2021-05-10 Thread Daniel J. Luke
I agree that the implementation could be better - it doesn't look super-complicated, perhaps making this less surprising/less destructive would be a good first project for someone interested in working on macports-base? > On May 10, 2021, at 3:53 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > Too late now,

Re: Reclaim was not 'safe'

2021-05-10 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On May 9, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Gerben Wierda via macports-users > wrote: >> Anyway, the hard lesson was: reclaim is not ’safe’. I thought, reclaim >> would only remove inactive installs, but it removed active ones as well. >> >> It is not possible for me to retrace

Re: Reclaim was not 'safe'

2021-05-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Bjarne" == Bjarne D Mathiesen writes: Bjarne> port -q installed \ Bjarne> | awk '{print $1}' \ Bjarne> | xargs -n1 port setrequested Isn't that just sudo port setrequested installed Or am I missing something? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503

Re: Reclaim was not 'safe'

2021-05-10 Thread Ken Cunningham
> Isn't that just sudo port setrequested installed That’s what I’ve always done to avoid this, also having been burned by it once years ago: sudo port setrequested installed sudo port -v reclaim K

Re: Reclaim was not 'safe'

2021-05-10 Thread Bill Cole
On 2021-05-10 at 11:43:56 UTC-0400 (Mon, 10 May 2021 17:43:56 +0200) Bjarne D Mathiesen is rumored to have said: Daniel J. Luke wrote: On May 9, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Gerben Wierda via macports-users wrote: Anyway, the hard lesson was: reclaim is not ’safe’. I thought, reclaim would only