Re: Re: MacPorts selfupdate fails& cannot write to location

2011-10-01 Thread Joshua Root
On 28164-7-23 05:59 , William H. Magill wrote: > I have no problem simply wiping Mac Ports and sting over but upgrading from > Snow Leopard (where I had last run Mac Ports 1.9) to Lion and attempting to > upgrade to MacPorts 2.x "should work." Another thing: Note that the Migration instructions

Re: Re: MacPorts selfupdate fails& cannot write to location

2011-10-01 Thread Joshua Root
On 28164-7-23 05:59 , William H. Magill wrote: > Returning to a problem I was having earlier before "life" interrupted ?.and > am still having. > > I realize that the registry.db file does not exist. What I don't understand > is the "couldn't write to this location" part of the error. It's a bu

Re: autoexpect : can't find package Expect

2011-10-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 1, 2011, at 01:10, Yvon Thoraval wrote: > after : > $ sudo port uninstall expect > $ sudo port selfupdate > $ sudo port install expect > giving : > ---> Computing dependencies for expect > ---> Fetching archive for expect > ---> Attempting to fetch expect-5.45_1.darwin_11.x86_64.tgz from

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 1, 2011, at 07:53, Sam Kuper wrote: > On 1 October 2011 10:04, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> (Snip) >> MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file >> of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can >> not >> remember which. Of course It

Re: Lion/MacPorts2.x migration: Fetchmail looking for Kerberos

2011-10-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 16:56, Bill Christensen wrote: > I'm doing a test migration of a server from SnowLeopard/MacPorts 1.9.x to > Lion/MacPorts2.x. Most of it appears to be going fairly smoothly (though > uninstalling/reinstalling all the ports is a bit tedious), but i've run into > a problem

Lion/MacPorts2.x migration: Fetchmail looking for Kerberos

2011-10-01 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi folks, I'm doing a test migration of a server from SnowLeopard/MacPorts 1.9.x to Lion/MacPorts2.x. Most of it appears to be going fairly smoothly (though uninstalling/reinstalling all the ports is a bit tedious), but i've run into a problem installing Fetchmail. It's looking for Kerberos

Re: MacPorts selfupdate fails… cannot write to location

2011-10-01 Thread William H. Magill
On Sep 14, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Sep 13, 2011, at 21:49, William H. Magill wrote: >> This is very weird… True… registry.db does not exist… no idea why unless the >> previous "selfupdate" attempt deleted it. >> False… both my userid and root

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Sam Kuper
On 1 October 2011 10:04, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > (Snip) > MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file > of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can not > remember which. Of course It may not work anymore. > > At least I am happy with Mac

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Sam, I a little something as a important side note. MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can not remember which. Of course It may not work anymore. At least I am happy with MacTeX.

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Dan Ports
MacTeX and MacPorts are, for the most part, going to install the same version of the same TeX Live software, so it largely comes down to which package manager you'd like to use. The major differences are: - MacTeX includes the entire distribution (which makes it pretty large). The texlive meta