Re: Hello. MacPorts variants Question.

2007-03-07 Thread Randall Wood
All I can say is that now that you have prompted me to look is that I am seeing the same behavior. On 6 Mar 2007, at 21:04, Park Jin Hyung wrote: Hello. Before, I have asked about this problem, but no one answered.. was there any problem about my question? If it was, please let me know. and

Hello. MacPorts variants Question.

2007-03-06 Thread Park Jin Hyung
Hello. Before, I have asked about this problem, but no one answered.. was there any problem about my question? If it was, please let me know. and.. my problem is below: I have configured in /opt/local/etc/ports/ports.conf like 20 # Where to find global variants definition file (optional) 21 va

Re: variants question

2007-01-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 11, 2007, at 17:12, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 16:34, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote: Is this really true? I haven't tested, but I was under the impression that when installing something with a variant, any dependencies that are

Re: variants question

2007-01-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 11, 2007, at 16:34, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote: Is this really true? I haven't tested, but I was under the impression that when installing something with a variant, any dependencies that are installed at this time also have the same vari

Re: variants question

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 11, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote: Is this really true? I haven't tested, but I was under the impression that when installing something with a variant, any dependencies that are installed at this time also have the same variant applied to them. Meaning, if you don't have apr-u

Re: variants question

2007-01-11 Thread Kevin Ballard
Is this really true? I haven't tested, but I was under the impression that when installing something with a variant, any dependencies that are installed at this time also have the same variant applied to them. Meaning, if you don't have apr-util installed, and you install subversion +no_bdb

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:54 AM, belinda thom wrote: Thanks for your careful answers. I've learned a lot. Its weird...in the tools there is an .el file (for emacs). But nothing re: pythonbindings is there. I looked at debian's related subversion tools to get a feel for what tools one might expec

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:31 PM, John Labovitz wrote: Hm. At one point this was not true. I distinctly remember needing to add some variant in order to get to WebDAV repos. Maybe that has changed. That would be good, as it always seemed like

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread belinda thom
Ryan, Thanks for your careful answers. I've learned a lot. Its weird...in the tools there is an .el file (for emacs). But nothing re: pythonbindings is there. I looked at debian's related subversion tools to get a feel for what tools one might expect (the macports src links for tools was g

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:31 PM, John Labovitz wrote: Actually, mod_dav_svn lets you *serve* repositories over WebDAV. To *access* WebDAV repositories, all you need is neon (that is, you want to *not* specify +no_neon). Hm. At one point this was not true. I distinctly remember needing to add

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 7, 2007, at 20:36, belinda thom wrote: One final question: how does port handle the case where you've already installed something (e.g. subversion) and you then want to "add on" a variant (e.g. +tools)? Does it do a completely new reinstall, or does it piggy-back off of existing thin

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread js
Unfortunately there's no simple, standard way to tell what variants one might want for any given port. It would be nice if MacPorts showed more context on a variant, but as far as I can tell, it's up to the given port maintainer. Sometimes when I'm faced with a similar question, I'll look at the

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread belinda thom
Hi, One final question: how does port handle the case where you've already installed something (e.g. subversion) and you then want to "add on" a variant (e.g. +tools)? Does it do a completely new reinstall, or does it piggy-back off of existing things when it can? Is it standard practice

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 18:25, John Labovitz wrote: I will say that from experience you will probably want +mod_dav_svn, as it provides access to WebDAV-hosted repositories, which includes many public SVN repos. I've tried building Subversion wi

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread belinda thom
Thanks Ryan! On Jan 7, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 17:28, belinda thom wrote: How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversio

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 7, 2007, at 17:28, belinda thom wrote: How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon, no_b

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 3:28 PM, belinda thom wrote: How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon, no

variants question

2007-01-07 Thread belinda thom
Hi, How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon, no_bdb, mac_os_x_server_mod_dav_svn, tools, da