Re: Permissions problem

2008-12-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 21, 2008, at 17:16, Vince Rice wrote: It's normal that everything is owned by root. You would use "sudo" before any port command which modifies things, such as sync, selfupdate, upgrade, install, etc. Wow, that was fast! OK, I see that now. I did look in the docs before, but the exa

Re: Permissions problem

2008-12-21 Thread Vince Rice
- Original Message From: Ryan Schmidt To: Vince Rice Cc: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 5:07:01 PM Subject: Re: Permissions problem > It's normal that everything is owned by root. You would use "sudo" before any > port command > which modifies thin

Permissions problem

2008-12-21 Thread Vince Rice
> uname Darwin SRSMBPRO.local 9.5.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.2: Thu Oct 2 14:51:59 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.8.59~2/RELEASE_I386 i386 > sw_vers ProductName:Mac OS X ProductVersion:10.5.5 BuildVersion:9F2533 > port -v MacPorts 1.700 Xcode is 3.1.2 from the Xcode/About menu. All steps below per

Re: Permissions problem

2008-12-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 21, 2008, at 17:03, Vince Rice wrote: uname Darwin SRSMBPRO.local 9.5.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.2: Thu Oct 2 14:51:59 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.8.59~2/RELEASE_I386 i386 sw_vers ProductName:Mac OS X ProductVersion:10.5.5 BuildVersion:9F2533 port -v MacPorts 1.700 Xcode is 3.1.2

Re: Upgrading ncurses & ncursesw fails

2008-12-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 21, 2008, at 15:10, Matthias Dietrich wrote: I used the f flag because there were errors without but I cannot reproduce them now (the errors without the f flag). now I know why I used the f flag: I wanted to reinstall *every* port which is installed because there were problems with t

Re: port collections

2008-12-21 Thread Bryan Blackburn
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 01:27:44PM -0800, Bradley Giesbrecht said: > Is there such a thing as a port collection? > > Like port install-collection lamp or something that would install not- > linux:)/apache/mysql/php/python/perl? > > Bad example but just wondering. There are a couple, gnome [1] and

Re: Upgrading ncurses & ncursesw fails

2008-12-21 Thread Matthias Dietrich
Hi, I used the f flag because there were errors without but I cannot reproduce them now (the errors without the f flag). now I know why I used the f flag: I wanted to reinstall *every* port which is installed because there were problems with them (gues the migration was a fault). Now I g

Re: configuring port

2008-12-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 21, 2008, at 11:56, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: If you think your variants would be useful to more than just you, I'm sure we'd be glad to add them. Please file tickets with your proposed patches if so. Daniel, I see you are the macports maintainer for bind9 which I am trying to cre

port collections

2008-12-21 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
Is there such a thing as a port collection? Like port install-collection lamp or something that would install not- linux:)/apache/mysql/php/python/perl? Bad example but just wondering. Maybe a better one would be port install-collection pbx which could install a solid asterisk system. I'm

Re: Upgrading ncurses & ncursesw fails

2008-12-21 Thread Bryan Blackburn
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 05:17:17PM +0100, Matthias Dietrich said: > Hi, [...] >> What were the exact commands you used to get to this point? > > the command was: > sudo port -f upgrade ncurses > > I used the f flag because there were errors without but I cannot > reproduce them now (the errors w

Re: MPlayer failing to install

2008-12-21 Thread Bryan Blackburn
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 01:52:56PM -0500, Tim Visher said: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > > > Does it show up with 'port installed giflib'? > > Nope. It didn't. Weird. > > I went ahead and installed giflib manually and ran into another weird > problem. Apparently,

Re: Upgrading ncurses & ncursesw fails

2008-12-21 Thread Matthias Dietrich
Hi, ---> Unable to uninstall ncursesw 5.7_0, the following ports depend on it: --->ncurses Warning: Uninstall forced. Proceeding despite dependencies. Error: Uninstall ncursesw 5.7_0 failed: Registry error: Please specify the name of the port. What were the exact commands you used t

Re: MPlayer failing to install

2008-12-21 Thread Tim Visher
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: > Does it show up with 'port installed giflib'? Nope. It didn't. Weird. I went ahead and installed giflib manually and ran into another weird problem. Apparently, gif2epsn, which giflib depends on, was already being used by another port,

Re: configuring port

2008-12-21 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: Is there some reading that someone could point me to that could help me with downloading and reconfiguring a port from macports? The guide should help you out, especially: http://guide.macports.org/#development I'm looking to take advan

Re: How to keep source

2008-12-21 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Dec 20, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Bart Masschelein wrote: This file is not there however. I assume it is put there termporarily, and removed after install. Which steps should I undertake (and especially which not) in order to keep those source files? from the macports.conf manpage: porta

Re: How to keep source

2008-12-21 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
I don't know the answer to your problem but if you want to look at the files in work you could do: # port extract mono cd `port dir mono` ls work/ On Dec 20, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Bart Masschelein wrote: Hi all, I'm using mono from MacPorts, and at a point my program crashes, pointing to the

KDE3 broken

2008-12-21 Thread Jonathan Stickel
KDE3 is broken for me since recently upgrading to Macports 1.7. Everything installs fine, but no kde application will start. Among many messages, I see (e.g. when trying kwrite): KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kwrite path = pid = 8226 Any ideas? I a

Error installing xpdf with openmotif

2008-12-21 Thread spam . spam . spam . spam
Hello, When I install xpdf, I get this : $ sudo port install xpdf Password: ---> Building openmotif Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_openmotif/work/openmotif-2.3.1" && m