Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-09 Thread Jerry
On May 9, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On May 8, 2014, at 23:14, Jerry wrote: > >> Octave has failed to install (once again), this time into a fresh MacPorts >> established according to the Migration advice given at >> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration onto a new installa

Re: Update Mailman port?

2014-05-09 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 9, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > Understood and appreciated. I currently have no idea what's involved in > patching and maintaining a port. Is there documentation somewhere? There's some info in the guide, and in general macports-dev (and the people who hang out on IRC

Re: Update Mailman port?

2014-05-09 Thread Bill Christensen
On 5/9/14 2:09 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: The MacPorts version of Mailman is currently 2.1.13_0. There's a fix that could be useful to me in the current stable version, 2.1.18-1, released a couple days ago. I see the port listed as "nomaint

Re: Update Mailman port?

2014-05-09 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 9, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > The MacPorts version of Mailman is currently 2.1.13_0. > > There's a fix that could be useful to me in the current stable version, > 2.1.18-1, released a couple days ago. > > I see the port listed as "nomaintainer". How do I get that o

Update Mailman port?

2014-05-09 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi folks, The MacPorts version of Mailman is currently 2.1.13_0. There's a fix that could be useful to me in the current stable version, 2.1.18-1, released a couple days ago. I see the port listed as "nomaintainer". How do I get that one bumped to the latest version? Thanks! _

Re: Migration question and binary question

2014-05-09 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > Handling variants of dependencies correctly is precisely why > restore_ports.tcl exists. The lack of automatic preservation of the > requested flag is an annoyance, certainly, but you can get around it by > running this at the same time you gen

Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 8, 2014, at 23:14, Jerry wrote: > Octave has failed to install (once again), this time into a fresh MacPorts > established according to the Migration advice given at > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration onto a new installation of Mavericks. > > I did: > sudo port install octave +a

Re: Migration question and binary question

2014-05-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 9, 2014, at 02:22, Jerry wrote: > On May 8, 2014, at 10:39 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > >> Jerry wrote: >>> I am considering using the "Automatically reinstall ports" suggestion >>> whereby a script is downloaded which script then works with a previously >>> saved myports.txt. If I do this,

Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-09 Thread Jerry
On May 9, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Jerry wrote: > > On May 9, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Jerry wrote: > >> >> On May 9, 2014, at 12:58 AM, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: >> >>> Hi Jerry, >>> >>> octave isn’t building these days >> >> This is TERRIBLE news! I would never have upgraded my OS had I known this

Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-09 Thread Jerry
On May 9, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Jerry wrote: > > On May 9, 2014, at 12:58 AM, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > >> Hi Jerry, >> >> octave isn’t building these days > > This is TERRIBLE news! I would never have upgraded my OS had I known this. > >> on 10.9 because of atlas [1]. > > I get: > $ port

Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-09 Thread Mihai Moldovan
* On 09.05.2014 10:25 am, Jerry wrote: > I get: > $ port installed atlas > The following ports are currently installed: > atlas @3.10.1_5+gcc48 (active) > >> Can you verify that you’re seeing the same error? > Not if I understand the above result. Doesn't that indicate that atlas is > installed?

Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-09 Thread Jerry
On May 9, 2014, at 12:58 AM, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > octave isn’t building these days This is TERRIBLE news! I would never have upgraded my OS had I known this. > on 10.9 because of atlas [1]. I get: $ port installed atlas The following ports are currently installed: at

Re: Installing Octave port into new Mavericks system fails

2014-05-09 Thread MK-MacPorts
Hi Jerry, octave isn’t building these days on 10.9 because of atlas [1]. Can you verify that you’re seeing the same error? Ticket responder Vince obviously managed to get it to run on his end, but it’s unclear how... Greets, Marko [1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42160 _

Re: Migration question and binary question

2014-05-09 Thread Jerry
On May 8, 2014, at 10:39 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > Jerry wrote: >> I am considering using the "Automatically reinstall ports" suggestion >> whereby a script is downloaded which script then works with a previously >> saved myports.txt. If I do this, will the script install old versions of >> po