On 11/12/17 17:58 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Hi Eric. You should write to the macports-users mailing list for help using > MacPorts.
√ Done - I'm here. :) > Lion is old. If possible on your Mac, please consider upgrading to a newer > version of macOS. Yes, I'll maybe go to ML. I stopped at Lion and didn't think ML brought much more to it, but it seems to be the bottom low version today. On my way to migrate my Mac Pro -> mini and the run it off-line. Perhaps I should do a clean install of ML then. > Yes, you can construct lists of ports by exclusion on the command line, for > example: > > sudo port upgrade outdated and not go > > // ... // > > sudo port upgrade outdated and not \( go mongo-tools \) Thanks! That'll be fine. I'll use an alias|function to make it easy to go. > No, there is no configuration file in which you could specify a list of ports > to exclude. I don't think we really want to go down the path of making that > easier, because MacPorts was designed with the expectation that you will > upgrade all of your ports, and selectively excluding ports can lead to > problems. Yes, I understand that. It just felt like a common way to do it. And since there's a simular way to add things (ie. variants.conf) I guess that was the way to go. // Perhaps I should uninstall it and install it manually instead - just to get it out of the MP system. - - - > Looks like Dan, the maintainer of the failing port, osxfuse, hasn't responded > to the ticket. It's fine to send a message to the macports-dev mailing list > asking if another developer could look into it. Ok, thanks. I'll do that. - - - > This didn't used to be a problem, because we would copy the distfiles to our > own server which uses a configuration that old OS versions can still talk to. > But we are not automatically mirroring new distfiles at this time. I would > like to get this back online soon, which will solve this problem. The issue > is tracked here: > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53347 > > I have manually mirrored the distfiles for the specific Python ports you > mentioned, so you should now be able to install them on Mountain Lion or > earlier. Thank you so much - that was really helpful. · Eric
