Re: force destroot?

2007-12-09 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:37:45PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2007, at 12:30, Matthew Caldwell wrote: > >> Is there a way to persuade macports to redo a destroot without having also >> to rebuild from scratch? When I try using "port -fd destroot" I just get a >> bunch of "Skipping c

Re: Avahi upgrade fails

2007-09-15 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:55:15PM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > [snip] > > I would appreciate also if any port uses python25 that all python25 > stuff > be included in the deps sothat the upgrades will go smotthly. > > regards > Keith. Hi, th

Re: Installing gnuplot fails

2007-09-15 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:30:19PM +0100, mike jones wrote: > Hi :) > Today I tried to install gnuplots on my mac and I recieved the following > error :( > > 5acff429:~ mike$ sudo port install gnuplot > ---> Building texinfo with target all > [snip] > > FYI the version of MacPorts I have install

Re: trying to install gimp

2007-09-15 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:57:19AM -0500, Lenore Horner wrote: > I've tried the suggestion highlighted below. libbonobo still complains. > How do I figure out what XML::Parser really corresponds to as it is neither > p5-xml-parser nor p5-libxml-perl. As far as I know it's the port "p5-xml-pars

Re: esound

2007-09-15 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:31:44AM -0400, David Moylan wrote: > I'm having trouble installing esound on my Powerbook (last generation G4), > OS X 10.4.10 > > [snip] > > Any help would be appreciated. Ports like the Gimp depend on esound. > > Thanks. > > Dave Hi, Could you please send us the deb

Re: Problem with MacPorts installing Hydra

2007-09-12 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:07:51AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Sep 12, 2007, at 05:25, Brock Woolf wrote: > > I have created a ticket for you and assigned it to hydra's maintainer: > > http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12691 > > I added you to the Cc list so you'll get emailed w

Re: selfupdate headache..

2007-09-12 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:12:21PM +0200, Casper Holm wrote: > would it be relatively save to install MAMP and go from there or am I > beggin for a haluva mess? I'm not sure what you have done with your computer (reading your other messages). I think the safest way would be to completely reinstal

Re: yacas install failed

2007-09-07 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > hello everybody, > > port install yacas failed with > > [snip] > > and indeed the current version available for download from > sourceforge is yacas-1.1.12. > > it would be great if this package could be updated. > >

Re: Can't build GNU Octave because of missing/broken hdf5?

2007-09-06 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:36, Simon Ruderich wrote: > >> I have a more general question about this. Can I/we just commit a quick >> fix for this or should we wait for the maintainer? As Bernard >> Desgraup

Re: How to handle different versions of Python

2007-09-05 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Yes, that's right. A python port either uses python2.4 or it uses > python2.5. If a python port could work with either, then two ports > should be created. The one with the py- prefix is for python2.4 and the > one with the py25

Re: Can't build GNU Octave because of missing/broken hdf5?

2007-09-05 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Then perhaps you could attach a diff to the ticket? Hi, I have a more general question about this. Can I/we just commit a quick fix for this or should we wait for the maintainer? As Bernard Desgraupes says the update works so

Re: Checksum failure on mysql-connector-java

2007-09-04 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Scott Harper wrote: > > Simon Ruderich wrote: >> port edit mysql-connector-java >> >> And then change the version to 5.0.7 and the md5 checksum to: >> >> d177ce7397b119f013458cec0418ad2d >> >> Then ru

Re: Checksum failure on mysql-connector-java

2007-08-31 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Scott Harper wrote: > I am trying to install the mysql-connector-java port, but am encountering a > checksum failure: > >> sudo port install mysql-connector-java > ---> Fetching mysql-connector-java > ---> Verifying checksum(s) for mysql-connector

Re: Is There a Way to Know Full Dependencies?

2007-08-29 Thread Simon Ruderich
Xin Liu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering, is there an easy way to know the full dependencies > for installing a package? For instance, gnuplot depends on tetex, and > tetex further depends on texinfo, then is it possible for me to know > that gnuplot indirectly depends on texinfo before the act

Re: (no subject)

2007-08-29 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jochen Küpper wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On 29.08.2007, at 07:39, N_Ox wrote: > >> Le 29 août 07 à 02:32, Simon Ruderich a écrit : > >>>> I attached a Portfile and the patch for the current Portfile to this >>

Re: (no subject)

2007-08-28 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Simon Ruderich wrote: > Jochen Küpper wrote: >> I've updated the Portfile in svn according to your message. >> >> However, I was wondering why you upgraded to 4.07, no to 4.12, which >> seems to be the latest

Re: (no subject)

2007-08-28 Thread Simon Ruderich
Jochen Küpper wrote: > I've updated the Portfile in svn according to your message. > > However, I was wondering why you upgraded to 4.07, no to 4.12, which > seems to be the latest stable release? > > Greetings, > Jochen Hi Jochen, Now I figured out it was kind of stupid. I thought a minor upgr

Re: (no subject)

2007-08-28 Thread Simon Ruderich
Eckhard Wiemann wrote: > Hallo, > > I try to install PMW (music notation software, no maintainer). > Unfortunately the fetch-phase fails. The Error-Message is: > > ---> Fetching pmw > ---> Attempting to fetch pmw-4.05.tar.gz from http://www.quercite.com/ > ---> Attempting to fetch pmw-4.05.tar

Re: Error building openmotif

2007-08-17 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Samuel M. Smith wrote: > I am a newbie so some of this stuff I am not sure about. > I did a port sync but now I get a new error > > sudo port install xpdf > Error: Unable to execute port: can't read "Id": no such variable After a port sync I get th

Re: Problem installing gnome-doc-utils

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Simon Ruderich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think for "normal" users there is no difference and you are right, it >> would be better to use selfupdate. I should have used that in the mai

Re: Problem installing gnome-doc-utils

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Half an hour normally. Then use `sudo port sync` to update your ports >> tree and to get the newest updates. Then run the command. > > Are there good reasons not to do a selfupdate? I haven't even documented > 'port sync

Re: Problem installing gnome-doc-utils

2007-08-14 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Susan Mackay wrote: > Thanks for the information. However, one answer leads to two questions: > > 1) what sort of time frame is "a short while" (days, weeks,) Half an hour normally. Then use `sudo port sync` to update your ports tree and to get

Re: SDL_Perl on MacOSX

2007-08-13 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Tommaso Urli wrote: > Excuse me, I'm a little newbie with Xcode, how I can install the > needed SDK? Which is the SDK? Why I have Xcode installed but not the > needed SDK? > > Thanks > Tommaso Hi, sorry for the late reply, I missed this mail. To

Re: freetype +universal fails to install

2007-08-12 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bengt Nilsson wrote: > $ port variants freetype > freetype has the variants: > universal > bytecode: Build bytecode interpreter into the TrueType driver > doc: Install extra documentation > > When I do > > # port edit freety

Re: Multiple ports installations

2007-08-10 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Simon Ruderich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Just if anybody else is trying to do this. I figured it out and it works >> with the following command: >> >> ./configure --prefix=NEW_PRE

Re: Multiple ports installations

2007-08-10 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Simon Ruderich wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install multiple ports installations for testing purposes > but it doesn't work. > > First I installed a port installation with the normal ./configure && > make

Re: Which version of Apache am I running?

2007-07-31 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Elise van Looij wrote: > > echo $PATH returned: > > /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql > /opt/local/bin/mysql5 > /usr/local/mysql/bin > /opt/local/bin > /opt/local/sbin > /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin > /usr/local/bin > /bin > /sbin > /usr/bin > /usr/sbin

Re: MacPorts + PHP subversion bindings

2007-07-30 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ben Weintraub wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to build the 'svn' PECL package (Subversion bindings for > PHP) and running into some problems which I think may be MacPorts > related. I've installed the dependencies (PHP 5.2.3 running under > a

Re: gpgme downgraded?

2007-07-13 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Christoph Ludwig wrote: > Was this a glitch in port or do I misunderstand the documentation? As I read > the man page, "selfupdate" is supposed to imply a "sync". > > Regards > > Christoph "sync" updates the port tree; "selfupdate" also updates th

Re: Shouldn't old port be deleted on upgrade?

2007-07-11 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Farsinsen wrote: > > As for removing the 'outdated' ports. My installation is very basic, and > even though I have more that 20 ports installed. Is there any shortcut > for removing all outdated/inactive ports? > > Best regards, > > Peter Fa

Re: Shouldn't old port be deleted on upgrade?

2007-07-11 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Farsinsen wrote: > Hi, > > Just did 'port upgrade outdated' which went very well. But when I do > 'port installed' some of the old ports still seems to be installed. Is > this the intended behavior or is my installation broken? This is intend

Re: selfupdate to 1.0.5

2007-07-11 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: > > So the only two leftovers are build and sources. I figured it wasn't > worth moving build as it either has stuff that's already installed or > builds that failed at some stage (and in any case, everything in that >

Multiple ports installations

2007-07-07 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I'm trying to install multiple ports installations for testing purposes but it doesn't work. First I installed a port installation with the normal ./configure && make .. procedure and then another port with ./configure - --prefix=/opt-test. But

Re: Problem installing php5

2007-06-21 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Pete Gontier wrote: > This sounds like the problem I saw a few days ago. MacPorts builds > php5 against Apple's Apache rather than MacPorts' Apache. This is a > bug in the php5 package. On Jun 12, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt > wrote: > > "php5

Re: Fwd: Problem installing php5

2007-06-19 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 N_Ox wrote: > Hi, > > I think you are calling the OS X apachectl instead of the MacPorts' > one. Try `which apachectl` to check that. Thanks for your response, but I don't think this is the problem. The launchctl from macports is in my path and is

Problem installing php5

2007-06-19 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I'm trying to install php5. First I installed "apache" and then "php5 +apache +pear". But this doesn't work. After doing all the given steps If this is your first install, you might want * enable php in apache : cd /opt/local/libexec/apache /

Re: Darcs checksum failing, even after clean

2007-06-19 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bueno, Denis wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope this hasn't already been solved (I subscribed to the list not > 5 minutes ago) > > Symptom: I can't get darcs to install; the checksum keeps failing. > Expected behavior: Darcs should install. =] > >

Re: making a port

2007-05-31 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Steve Dekorte wrote: > Can someone point me to the documentation on how to make and submit a port? > > I'd like to make ports for libsgml, portaudio, and some other libs. The documentation for macports and the portfiles is currently ofline but will

Re: Improving the homepage

2007-05-29 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I disagree only with the "getting started" part. I think it is too > ambiguous. If getting started means introduction then why not call it > introduction? If it means something else, then why not give it an apt > descri

Re: Improving the homepage

2007-05-29 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I have been slowly working on a redesign of the web site which I will > post to the dev list soon for feedback. I will attempt to incorporate > your suggestions. Thanks for your quick reply. If I can do anything to help you wi

Improving the homepage

2007-05-29 Thread Simon Ruderich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, as a new user to macports I have some possible improvements for the homepage because the first visit to it was a bit confusing: As I first visited the homepage I couldn't find any information what macports is; only after digging in the links I