> Today, that's what we're after. Other days, we're after
... so?
Command-Not-Found is a python package:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~zkrynicki/command-not-found/trunk/files/head:/CommandNotFound/
It can pull down a new list of files (scan data) in case you want it to be a
separate step with
Presumably the "easy" thing we could do is keep track of which files
exist in the binary archives...
Scott
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 16:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> Other times, we want to know what port provides a certain header or
>> li
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 16:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Other times, we want to know what port provides a certain header or
> library we don't have on our systems that's causing some port to fail to
> build because someone forgot a dependency.
>
This we need anyway, as it's a basis for what's being
On Nov 11, 2011, at 14:51, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> What about GUI programs? What about manpages or
>> perl modules or php modules etc. that people sometimes ask about?
>
> That's outside the scope of what we're trying to do here.
>
> We're only after the programs people would like to execute f
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 16:05, Scott Webster wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Phillip Koebbe
> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> >> Actually, it's only fairly recently that Linux package managers started
> shipping with a master package manifest that
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Phillip Koebbe
wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> Actually, it's only fairly recently that Linux package managers started
>> shipping with a master package manifest that could be queried for this kind
>> of thing, and it's an add
On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> Actually, it's only fairly recently that Linux package managers started
> shipping with a master package manifest that could be queried for this kind
> of thing, and it's an add-in instead of basic behavior; as such, it's only
> "fundamenta
> That would answer the present question "what port provides this executable
> program in ${prefix}/bin" but what about ports like apache2 that install
> their binaries elsewhere?
If they're not in $PATH then we don't care.
> What about GUI programs? What about manpages or
> perl modules or php m
Actually, it's only fairly recently that Linux package managers started
shipping with a master package manifest that could be queried for this kind
of thing, and it's an add-in instead of basic behavior; as such, it's only
"fundamental" in the sense that there's only one such manifest to query on
a
On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Phillip Koebbe
> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On ubuntu, it can prompt me what to do if a package is missing. I'm
>>> wondering if there is anything similar on mac.
>>
On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Scott Webster wrote:
> Ryan's latest email goes into some of the reasons why
> it doesn't work on macports. It would be nice for a variety of
> reasons, but it is not easy.
... but just because it's not easy doesn't mean it's not a good idea. As with
everything rela
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
>
> I was not taking about the general question as you mentioned. A
> smaller step is to just prompt macport packages.
>
As Ryan basically explained, macports does not "know" what commands
are installed by all the different ports. Ubuntu's system
We should keep the discussion on the mailing list.
On Nov 11, 2011, at 13:32, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> your best bet is
>> to use an Internet search engine, e.g. Google.
>
> This isn't the first time this has come up; why are we waiting for someone
> to send us patches? :-P
>
> In the most nai
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Phillip Koebbe
wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On ubuntu, it can prompt me what to do if a package is missing. I'm
>> wondering if there is anything similar on mac.
>>
>> ~$ hg
>> The program 'hg' is currently not installed. Y
On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On ubuntu, it can prompt me what to do if a package is missing. I'm
> wondering if there is anything similar on mac.
>
> ~$ hg
> The program 'hg' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
> sudo apt-get install mercurial
>
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2011, at 13:02, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> On ubuntu, it can prompt me what to do if a package is missing. I'm
>> wondering if there is anything similar on mac.
>>
>> ~$ hg
>> The program 'hg' is currently not installed. You can install i
On 11/11/11 19:26, "Ryan Schmidt" wrote:
> Phil, I think you missed the point of the question. The question is, if a user
> knows they need a program called "hg" but they don't have it installed, what
> can they do to find out what port, if any, would install it? I happen to know
> that "hg" is p
On Nov 11, 2011, at 13:02, Peng Yu wrote:
> On ubuntu, it can prompt me what to do if a package is missing. I'm
> wondering if there is anything similar on mac.
>
> ~$ hg
> The program 'hg' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
> sudo apt-get install mercurial
Phil, I think
On 11/11/11 2:17 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 11/11/11 19:13, "Phil Dobbin" wrote:
>
>> Use port variants: `port variants foobar` will list all variants for the port
>> `foobar`
>
> Or more usefully `port deps` will show you what the port needs to install &
> function correctly.
Neither of those
On 11/11/11 19:13, "Phil Dobbin" wrote:
> Use port variants: `port variants foobar` will list all variants for the port
> `foobar`
Or more usefully `port deps` will show you what the port needs to install &
function correctly.
Cheers,
Phil..
--
Nothing to see here... move along, move alon
On 11/11/11 19:02, "Peng Yu" wrote:
> On ubuntu, it can prompt me what to do if a package is missing. I'm
> wondering if there is anything similar on mac.
>
> ~$ hg
> The program 'hg' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
> sudo apt-get install mercurial
Use port variants:
Hi,
On ubuntu, it can prompt me what to do if a package is missing. I'm
wondering if there is anything similar on mac.
~$ hg
The program 'hg' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install mercurial
--
Regards,
Peng
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