Re: New improved Guide

2007-07-15 Thread James Berry
On Jul 10, 2007, at 12:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments still welcome on the Guide so far. Hey guys, I've been busy lately on some real work, but I wanted to pass along my support for the work you're doing on the documentation. Nice efforts! James

Heads up: MacOSForge machine reorganizations

2007-10-01 Thread James Berry
This is just a general heads up that the wonderful folks at macosforge are doing some machine migrations (more power for the masses...) in the coming days and weeks. They, and we, will try to minimize any service interruptions for MacPorts, but please be aware that this is afoot, and that t

Re: port -u upgrade outdated

2007-10-03 Thread James Berry
On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Oct 3, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Paul Phillips wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:54:43AM +0200, Thomas De Contes wrote: I deal with this by running this inelegant alias once in a while: alias portclean="sudo port installed|grep -v active|grep -v

MacPorts website scheduled downtime Friday morning

2007-10-10 Thread James Berry
The MacPorts web presence may be down for a (hopefully shor)t period of time on Friday morning, about 9:00 am US/Pacific. The macosforge team is moving the web server that serves MacPorts to a new machine and ip address, and it may take DNS a little while to settle across the move. (DNS TTL

Re: MacPorts website scheduled downtime Friday morning

2007-10-12 Thread James Berry
On Oct 10, 2007, at 9:00 PM, James Berry wrote: The MacPorts web presence may be down for a (hopefully shor)t period of time on Friday morning, about 9:00 am US/Pacific. The MacPorts site will go down shortly, and will hopefully be down for less than 1/2 hour. James The macosforge

Re: MacPorts website scheduled downtime Friday morning

2007-10-12 Thread James Berry
On Oct 12, 2007, at 8:54 AM, James Berry wrote: On Oct 10, 2007, at 9:00 PM, James Berry wrote: The MacPorts web presence may be down for a (hopefully shor)t period of time on Friday morning, about 9:00 am US/Pacific. The MacPorts site will go down shortly, and will hopefully be down

Re: apache2 MacPorts info message

2007-10-30 Thread James Berry
Hi Jochen, On Oct 30, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Jochen Küpper wrote: Hi All, I always wondered why my apache would not start at boot-time... Now I updgraded to MacPorts apache2 version 2.2.6 and take a quick look into it. Apparently one has to edit /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.apach

Re: Try selfupdate with Leopard => Error md5.h is missing

2007-11-01 Thread James Berry
On Nov 1, 2007, at 2:16 PM, William Davis wrote: have you tried doing sudo port -duf upgrade MacPorts? What the heck is that -- I mean the port called "MacPorts"? well, I dont mean to teach the Pope catechism but! MacPorts is the name of the "port" portfile. someone must be maintaining i

Re: Macports and http proxy

2007-11-05 Thread James Berry
Hi Quintin, Please be aware that MacPorts' use of curl is through libcurl only. I don't believe libcurl reads .curlrc. Furthermore, In looking at the PextLib curl code, it also doesn't look to me as if any of the proxy environment variables are being used (I don't see the word proxy anywh

Re: selfupdate failing under Leopard

2007-11-16 Thread James Berry
The use-case for readline in macports is quite small. I'm inclined to simply disable readline by default, which would eliminate this problem. All opposed? James On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. Especially si

Re: selfupdate failing under Leopard

2007-11-16 Thread James Berry
On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 15:57, James Berry wrote: The use-case for readline in macports is quite small. I'm inclined to simply disable readline by default, which would eliminate this problem. All opposed? That might eliminate the probl

Re: Mac OS X 10.3 support (was: Re: Installing python25 on OS X 10.3 failed)

2007-11-22 Thread James Berry
"Official" MacPorts policy has been that we support the two most recent versions of Mac OS. Which at the present means Tiger and Leopard. That doesn't mean that we'll go out of our way to break older versions, but that we don't promise we won't. A particularly good example of why this is pr

Re: Mac OS X 10.3 support (was: Re: Installing python25 on OS X 10.3 failed)

2007-11-22 Thread James Berry
e through this email list and the irc channel. ;) The use of the work "support" in my mail below can all be considered to mean "is able to work with", rather than "technical support." James On Nov 22, 2007 11:48 PM, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &qu

Change in mail routine for @macports.org addresses

2007-11-26 Thread James Berry
As part of ongoing spam-fighting efforts, mail to our @macports.org addresses is now being routed through the main apple email servers in order to better filter out spam. Please let us know if you see any adverse effects from this change. James ___

MacPorts servers will be down for a bit in about 5 hours

2008-01-07 Thread James Berry
Our friends at MacOSForge tell us that the servers running macports will be down in about 5 hours for some scheduled maintenance: We need to take the servers down briefly to apply some updates and configuration changes. All services will have 5-10m of downtime starting around 8PM on Monday.

Re: Upgrade of imap-uw @2004g_0+darwin_7 fails

2008-01-12 Thread James Berry
On Jan 12, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: We've just had a big long thread on the list about getting MacPorts 1.6.0 to compile on Mac OS X 10.3, and the 10.3 disk image for MacPorts 1.6.0 is now available. As far as I'm concerned, MacPorts needs to still support Mac OS X 10.3. Of

Re: View of non maintained packages

2008-01-13 Thread James Berry
Hi Rolf, On Jan 13, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Rolf Würdemann wrote: Gosh, there is a lot of packages not maintained ! It could be interesting to launch a call for maintainers on the blog ? Hmmm - I'm a maintainer of three ports - and waiting since one to three weeks for commitments ... If this

Re: macports installation vs 10.5.1/Xcode 3.0?

2008-02-07 Thread James Berry
On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: Rainer Müller wrote: Paths in /etc/manpaths.d and /etc/paths.d are always added at the end of MANPATH and PATH. Therefore, installs by MacPorts will not override the default Mac OS X installation. As it is not possible to prepend ne

Re: odd port list installed output

2008-03-06 Thread James Berry
On Mar 6, 2008, at 5:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my previous email I wrote: > >If I decide to reinstall, is there some way I can record what > ports I >currently have installed then, after the basic install, reinstall > those >ports with one command? > > So port list inst

Re: mysql5 vs. mysql5-devel

2008-03-26 Thread James Berry
On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Chris Janton wrote: Thank you. That worked nicely. Now I have to figure out why "mysql_upgrade" doesn't work at all... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~:125 $ mysql_upgrade5 Looking for 'mysql' in: mysql FATAL ERROR: Can't find 'mysql' 8) Hi Chris, The layout and naming of

MacPorts GSoC application!!! Extended!!! Students can earn summer money $$$ and prestige!!!

2008-03-31 Thread James Berry
Those of you who are a college student, work on a college campus, know college students, or have a college student as a child, please notice: The Google Summer of Code student application deadline for 2008 has been extended for one week to April 7. This means that students have one addition

Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

2008-09-30 Thread James Berry
As many of you know, MacPorts is loosely governed by the "PortMgr" team, which is currently made up of three people: Markus Weissmann, Juan Manual Palacios, and James Berry. We each love MacPorts, and hope to see it continue to prosper and grow in the future. And we want to c

Re: [macports-mgr] Hey, I would like to propose that we cut the gordian knot.

2008-10-08 Thread James Berry
Hi Jordan, As usual, you work well to cut through the bureaucracy ;) I'm not so opposed to going along with your suggestion to just get this thing done, or that an official "vote" may be superflous. But I also think it's premature to assume that the list of nominees so far, is complete, g

Call for PortMgr interest/nominations

2008-10-08 Thread James Berry
Per my previous note to Jordan, I'd like to set a deadline of this coming Friday, Oct 10, for those wishing to be part of the new PortMgr slate. If you are interested in these posts, please express your interest, or ask somebody to nominate you, by that time. In throwing in your hat, or acc

New PortMgr team announced!

2008-10-14 Thread James Berry
The (current) PortMgr team is pleased to be able to announce the appointment of a new PortMgr team. Four people expressed interest in the PortMgr positions, and have all been appointed by proclamation: Ryan Schmidt Rainer Müller Joshua Root Bryan Blackburn W

Re: History in port's cmd line available?

2009-01-16 Thread James Berry
On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Joshua Root wrote: Eckhard Wiemann wrote: Hi all, does anybody know if a command history is available in port's interactive mode? It would be nice if I could correct type-errors in a more comfortable way than typing the line again. Tab-completion would be app

Re: History in port's cmd line available?

2009-01-16 Thread James Berry
On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:29 AM, James Berry wrote: On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Joshua Root wrote: Eckhard Wiemann wrote: Hi all, does anybody know if a command history is available in port's interactive mode? It would be nice if I could correct type-errors in a more comfortable way

Re: History in port's cmd line available?

2009-01-16 Thread James Berry
On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: James Berry wrote: Even better, maybe we can fix the readline and broader /usr/local issue by using the (new in gcc 4.3?) option -nostdinc? Apple is currently providing gcc 4.0 as default in Xcode and additionally gcc 4.2. I don't thi

Re: dovecot 1.1.11 vs 1.1.15

2009-06-01 Thread James Berry
Hi Mark, I just wanted to let you know that I've seen your reports and am shaking my head a bit, as I also ran the dovecot update. In my case, I had no problem. Is your dovecot user and group installed successfully? dscl . -read /users/dovecot; dscl . -read /groups/dovecot 1.1.16 w

Re: port uninstall silently ignores unknown flags?

2006-11-09 Thread James Berry
On Nov 9, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:19 PM, David Glasser wrote: I've been sitting here typing variations $ sudo port uninstall --force subversion @1.4.2_0 for ten minutes before somebody nice on IRC told me to try -f. Shouldn't port complain when it sees a

Re: cannot login to trac. (After Mac OS Forge Redesign)

2006-11-14 Thread James Berry
Two things you might all try doing: - First ditch any and all cookies from macosforge.org and macports.org - Make sure you use the trac.macports.org url, rather than trac.macosforge.org url. James On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Mark Duling wrote: James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on T

Re: cannot login to trac. (After Mac OS Forge Redesign)

2006-11-14 Thread James Berry
Jyrki and Takanori, Thanks for your report of problems. I've forward them to the admins at macosforge. I'm sure they'll get them fixed up shortly. I've been having my own problems, not with trac any longer, but with svn access. James On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-11-23 Thread James Berry
Please note that the proper domain for mail is "macports.org", not "macports.com". James On Nov 22, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Nov 22, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Nathan wrote: Is anyone actually using an @macports.com email address? It appears that Gmail can't send to that server (

MacPorts dns outage

2006-12-02 Thread James Berry
The MacPorts domain was out for a while yesterday as our DNS provider, http://www.everydns.net was affected by a large scale DDoS attack. Their four geographically separated servers were taken down in the attack. You may read more about it on the everydns site. While we thought that four ge

Re: sync fails

2006-12-02 Thread James Berry
On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:58 AM, McGarry Vince wrote: Suddenly port sync is not working with the following result: This was probably a result of our dns outage yesterday. See me mail regarding that issue. James %-- Vince-McGarrys-Computer-2:~ vincemcgarry$ sudo port -dv sync Passwo

Re: with-extra-charsets in MySQL 5.0?

2006-12-22 Thread James Berry
On Dec 22, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Dec 22, 2006, at 08:05, js wrote: Is there any reason mysql5 port doesn't have --with-extra-charsets configure option in is port file? I found mysql4 port has that one. $ port cat mysql4 | grep extra --enable-thread-safe-c

Re: Apache on Boot

2007-01-06 Thread James Berry
On Jan 6, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote: What is the current wisdom on getting the MP apache2 port start on boot? My install is in good shape, runs when started manually, and has a daemondo that runs on boot, but the server never comes up. I searched the archive, but n

Re: Apache on Boot

2007-01-07 Thread James Berry
rg.macports.apache2.plist" as root? James -- Sal smile. -- Salvatore Domenick Desiano Doctoral Candidate Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, James Berry wrote: o o On Jan 6, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote

Re: Apache on Boot

2007-01-13 Thread James Berry
On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote: I don't really have a good understanding of daemondo. Can someone suggest where to look next (docs or approach)? I have only four thoughts on that: (1) daemondo --help (2) start daemondo with --verbosity=5, or so

Re: Tomcat - which version?

2007-01-23 Thread James Berry
On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:10 PM, David McCallie wrote: Newbie question. What is the difference between the two Apache Tomcat versions? Tomcat-native and Tomcat5? I want to create some Java servlets. Mac OS-X Tiger 10.4.8 Tomcat5 is the tomcat 5 servlet container. Tomcat-native is an exten

Re: Adding pcntl support to php5

2007-01-27 Thread James Berry
Hi Ryan, On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: It has been suggested to me that pcntl support should be added to the php5 port. I was asked to add a +pcntl variant for this, but I'm inclined to just add pcntl support always, without needing a variant. pcntl support does not requ

Re: port mysteries

2007-02-25 Thread James Berry
On Feb 25, 2007, at 5:29 AM, Kevin Horton wrote: I'm a new MacPorts user, trying to make some sense of it all. A couple of things have me baffled: 1. Why does the output of "port list installed" show some duplication: % port list installed db44 @4.4.20 dat

Re: [Bulk] Re: port mysteries

2007-02-25 Thread James Berry
On Feb 25, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Kevin Horton wrote: All those entries show the same version. But, "port installed py- wxpython" shows that the first one is actually a different version: % port installed py-wxpython The following ports are currently installed: py-wxpython @2.8.0.1_0 py-wxpyt

Re: port mysteries

2007-02-25 Thread James Berry
On Feb 25, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Kevin Horton wrote: On 25 Feb 2007, at 10:43, James Berry wrote: As per my earlier email, list is completely trustworthy, but you need to understand what it does. It just gives you concise information about the latest version of the port you've spec

Re: Portfile whitespace issues

2007-03-15 Thread James Berry
On Mar 15, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Paul Guyot wrote: On Mar 15, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: There were not that many participants. I tried to put up a fight in favor of keeping hard tabs, but I was the only one. :-) Upon further consideration, I don't think I really care that much one

Students: MacPorts approved for Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-15 Thread James Berry
I'm very pleased to announce that MacPorts has been selected by Google as an organizational member of Google Summer of Code 2007. This means that students may apply to work on MacPorts projects through the Summer of Code program sponsored by google. Compensation for completion of a project

Re: Please clear up DarwinPort/MacPorts confusion

2007-04-05 Thread James Berry
Hi Dan, Sorry, we've been waiting to put up a 1.4 release announcement until the dmg's were built, which finished last night. I'll be posting a new announcement this morning. Yes, 1.4.0 is final. Sorry about the other pages: you may have found darwinports.com, which is run by a third par

MacPorts v1.4.0 release announcement

2007-04-05 Thread James Berry
The MacPorts project is pleased to announce the release of MacPorts v1.4.0. Change log is at . Downloads are available at .

Re: BIND9 stopped working...

2007-04-09 Thread James Berry
On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Alex Kac wrote: On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Apr 8, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Alex Kac wrote: Nope. I have no restrictions at all. What's weird is if I restart it, it works fine. Not an option for a server, though. if you restart the server? W

MacPorts 1.4.1 released for self update

2007-04-15 Thread James Berry
MacPorts 1.4.1 has been released for selfupdate. It should hit the rsync servers within an hour or so. If you already have macports installed, simply "sudo port selfupdate". If you're doing a new install, install from the 1.4.0 disk image, then do a selfupdate. MacPorts 1.4.1 is a minor

Re: MacPorts 1.4.1 released for self update

2007-04-16 Thread James Berry
Hi Dave, On Apr 16, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Dave Hill wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MacPorts 1.4.1 has been released for selfupdate. It should hit the rsync servers within an hour or so. If you already have macports installed, simpl

Re: MacPorts 1.4.1 released for self update

2007-04-16 Thread James Berry
Scott, On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Scott C. Kennedy wrote: One question on the 1.4.1 release. In the ChangeLog for 1.4.1, I saw this line... - Add xar 1.4 into the build of MacPorts base. xar is now installed into /opt/local/, which will conflict with anybody who has the xar port install

MacPorts v1.4.2 released

2007-04-16 Thread James Berry
MacPorts 1.4.2 has been released for selfupdate. It should hit the rsync servers in an hour or so. 1.4.2 is a minor bug fix release, cut quickly because 1.4.1 didn't build properly on panther (Mac OS X 10.3.x). ChangeLog entries: Release 1.4.2 (16-Apr-2007): - New logic for variants o

Re: MacPorts v1.4.2 released

2007-04-17 Thread James Berry
Hi David, On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:47 AM, David Liontooth wrote: Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Citando Ryan Schmidt : Perhaps you meant to clean only the *installed* ports. But I'm still not clear why. I think MacPorts automatically cleans each port after it's installed, so you really shouldn't need t

Announcing MacPorts release 1.4.3

2007-04-17 Thread James Berry
The MacPorts team is very proud to announce our third release of MacPorts within several days. The pace of change has been fast and furious. This time we're just furious: Release 1.4.3 (17-Apr-2007): - Fix bug in launchd support, introduced in 1.4.2. Remove remnants of launchd

Re: Announcing MacPorts release 1.4.3

2007-04-17 Thread James Berry
Greg Shenaut On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:58 PM, James Berry wrote: The MacPorts team is very proud to announce our third release of MacPorts within several days. The pace of change has been fast and furious. This time we're just furious: Release 1.4.3 (17-Apr-2007): - Fix bug in launch

Re: Announcing MacPorts release 1.4.3

2007-04-17 Thread James Berry
Hi Greg, What Mac OS X system version are you running? And have you installed the latest xcode? James On Apr 17, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Greg Shenaut wrote: On Apr 17, 2007, at 6:44 PM, James Berry wrote: Hi Greg, You have darwinports 1.101 installed? We hoped we'd left all those

Re: MacPorts v1.4.2 released

2007-04-17 Thread James Berry
On Apr 17, 2007, at 7:27 PM, David Liontooth wrote: I believe that if you pass the -p flag to port, that this error (and any others) in a particular port will be ignored. The -p flag basically says that, while processing multiple ports (such as those furnished by all) that an error in one shoul

Re: Announcing MacPorts release 1.4.3

2007-04-17 Thread James Berry
On Apr 17, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Greg Shenaut wrote: On Apr 17, 2007, at 8:33 PM, James Berry wrote: Hi Greg, What Mac OS X system version are you running? And have you installed the latest xcode? 10.4.9 PPC, XCODE 2.4 Greg. Hmm. I haven't seen any issues with that sha1 co

Re: XercesC package broken...

2007-04-19 Thread James Berry
On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Kevin O'Mara wrote: Yes, creating a ticket is done with Trac. See the TracTicketing link here and see if that helps. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki I simply don't understand how to gain TICKET_CREATE privileges. Sorry if this is one of tho

Re: Archive mode broken after the latest updates

2007-04-20 Thread James Berry
Hi Guido, Nice sleuthing. I came to the same conclusion last night after following up a similar report from another user. I've written to Paul Guyot about the issue, who has the honor of having written the changeset in question, but the blessing to not have written the ugly hack that stum

Re: Online inventory of ports?

2007-04-26 Thread James Berry
On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Boey Maun Suang wrote: On 27/04/2007, at 03:42, David Liontooth wrote: Is there a web page that lists all the ports -- the currently packaged programs? As a side note, jberry@ is working on a nice web interface to do this using Ruby on Rails; if you'd like

Re: release schedules (was Re: hosting an internal macports server with binaries)

2007-05-07 Thread James Berry
On May 7, 2007, at 8:15 PM, paul beard wrote: On May 7, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Paul Guyot wrote: However, this functionality is broken in 1.4.3. This bug was fixed three weeks ago, but the people in charge here think we should not make too often releases, so you'll have to use trunk or wait fo

MacPorts v1.4.40 released for self update

2007-05-07 Thread James Berry
Here's the change log: James Release 1.4.40 (7-May-2007, tagged at r24909 by jberry): - Note the bump in version naming. To leave ourselves lots of room in our versioning scheme, we've jumped from 1.4.3 to 1.4.40. The floating point represenation as reported by port version

Re: Port version 1.440?

2007-05-09 Thread James Berry
On May 9, 2007, at 4:35 AM, Jeff Adams wrote: I'm pretty sure that a week ago or whenever it was I first installed MacPorts, I used the DMG and got version 1.4.0 which then updated to 1.4.4 on the first "port selfupdate". This time when I ran port selfupdate I got: DarwinPorts base version 1.

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread James Berry
On May 9, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Paulo Moura wrote: pmmbp:~/Documents/Prolog/xsbcvs pmoura$ sudo port -f install ---> Fetching xsb ---> Verifying checksum(s) for xsb ---> Extracting xsb ---> Configuring xsb ---> Building xsb with target all ---

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-10 Thread James Berry
On May 10, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Paulo Moura wrote: I'm in favor of getting the + out of your version number. The "3.0.1+" version number is not something I control as is used by the third-party software. This software install on a directory named after this version number. Using a different

Re: can't self-update after fresh macports install

2007-05-10 Thread James Berry
On May 10, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Frank Wilson wrote: I try to run self-update but I get the following error. I guess it's not a show stopper but it would be nice if someone could help me get it running properly. Thanks for any help! Here's the error: DHAVE_GMTIME_R=1 -DHAVE_LOCALTIME_R=1 -

Call for MacPorts documentation/site effort

2007-05-10 Thread James Berry
On May 10, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: If there isn't, there should really be a Wiki page with all Portfile variables. Just the names would already be helpful, although it should obviously contain an explanation in the end. The documentation used to have that, or at least most of

Re: using local patch-filed

2007-05-10 Thread James Berry
On May 10, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Jochen Küpper wrote: Hi Ryan, again, thanks for your help, it works ;-) You don't need to specify the directory name; MacPorts knows it's going to be in the files directory. Also, your patchfile name should begin with "patch-" and end with ".diff", between whi

Re: Introduction to MacPorts Please?

2007-05-10 Thread James Berry
On May 10, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Diane White wrote: Please excuse me, but what exactly is MacPorts? How does it work? Is it really what I want to use? I found Mac Ports through looking at another program called Jailkit, and there was another website (the predecessor to MacPorts?) called

Re: using local patch-filed

2007-05-10 Thread James Berry
On May 10, 2007, at 4:18 PM, James Berry wrote: Hey Jochen, If you've submitted a few ports and have had no uptake it's probably because others are either busy and/or uninterested in those ports. I'd encourage you to apply for a commit bit in such a case, if you&#

MacPorts Web App (mpwa) online for initial testing.

2007-05-15 Thread James Berry
The MacPorts Web App (mpwa) is online for some initial testing at http://db.macports.org/ This is the start of a vision for a more comprehensive online repository for ports. Please see some of my sketchy documentation at: http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/jberry/mpwa/doc/

Re: MacPorts Web App (mpwa) online for initial testing.

2007-05-16 Thread James Berry
On May 16, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: James: Until we decide on a unified email address obfuscation strategy for all of MacPorts, can you please obfuscate the email addresses printed in mpwa? Hi Ryan, Yes. Done. At least for the generated content. This doesn't do anything yet

MacPorts v1.4.41 released for selfupdate

2007-05-16 Thread James Berry
MacPorts v1.4.41 has been released for self update. To install this release you should be able to: sudo port selfupdate (it will take an hour or so for it to reach the rsync repository). James ChangeLog for this release: Release 1.4.41 (16-May-2007 tagged at r25266 by jberry):

MacPorts v1.4.42 released for selfupdate

2007-05-17 Thread James Berry
MacPorts v1.4.42 has been released for self update, correcting a bug in v1.4.41. To install this release you should be able to: sudo port selfupdate (it will take an hour or so for it to reach the rsync repository). James ChangeLog for this release: Release 1.4.42 (17-May-2007 ta

Re: MacPorts v1.4.41 released for selfupdate

2007-05-17 Thread James Berry
On May 17, 2007, at 12:36 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote: Please don't upgrade just yet. I just discovered I broke reinplace functionality at the last minute yesterday. Any reinplace pattern that has a dash in it will fail to work (ex. the one in apr-util). I've committed a fix, but we need to pu

Re: port list outdated

2007-05-17 Thread James Berry
On May 17, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Ludwig wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The outdated psudo-portname is not expanding correctly. It's returning a list of all ports in the repository. Is there another way to get a list of all active outdated ports? Huh. port list outdated

Re: Am I opening tickets improperly?

2007-05-21 Thread James Berry
On May 21, 2007, at 1:29 AM, Boey Maun Suang wrote: Hi Glen, Maybe only committers can change tickets (other than attach files or making comments)? Right on the money (I tested it), which, as you say, is a bit of a problem for those without commit rights who make a mistake when filing

Re: How do I search inside long descriptions

2007-06-19 Thread James Berry
On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I know how to do "port search foo" but that will only work on application names. I'd like to search the long descriptions. How is that done? You can do this using the long_description pseudo port: port list long_description:sp

Re: How do I search inside long descriptions

2007-06-19 Thread James Berry
On Jun 19, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Citando Björn Lundin : SEARCH="$2" PORT_LIST=$(port list long_description:$SEARCH | awk {'print $1'}) for PORT in $PORT_LIST; do

Re: Launchd not starting lighttpd - startupitem.requires

2007-06-21 Thread James Berry
'm very confused. Hi Sterling, startupitem.requires takes effect only for SystemStarter items, not for launchd. Here's what I'd try: On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:22 AM, James Berry wrote: Hi Alex, You might try adding the option "--restart-netchange" to the daemondo invocat

Re: Launchd not starting lighttpd - startupitem.requires

2007-06-21 Thread James Berry
Hi Ryan, On Jun 21, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 14:48, Sterling Anderson wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:50 AM, James Berry wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Sterling Anderson wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 1:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sterling Anderson on

Re: Mod_Jk2 install question

2007-07-03 Thread James Berry
Hi Samuel, That file may no longer be present in Tomcat, since jk2 has been abandoned. mod_jk is more up to date and has taken over from mod_jk2. Or use mod_proxy_ajp which ships with apache2: that's what I do. James On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Samuel V. Green III wrote: I just installed

Re: Remove PPC macports from Intel Mac

2010-10-09 Thread James Berry
Bradley, On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark Johnson wrote: >>> How can I get rid of the old MacPorts or replace it with one compatible >>> with my new machine? >>> I can't run

Re: Error: port activate failed: Registry error: No port of e installed.

2010-10-11 Thread James Berry
Hi Rainer, On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2010-10-11 19:21 , David Gentry wrote: >> 6. In my terminal window, I ran a command to list all inactive ports. >> I picked several to run a "port activate" command on. For example, I >> said, "port activate [apache2]" and "port

Thanking the MacPorts team

2011-01-16 Thread James Berry
I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the last year and thank the great team at MacPorts for all the work that's been done over the last year by port Committers and Maintainers, the PortMgr team, and by all the users who file bug reports. MacPorts has 136 committers, something like 7671 ports

Re: MacPorts without root privileges: how?

2011-02-15 Thread James Berry
On Feb 15, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Gf B wrote: > I've read the manual enough to discover that it doesn't tell you how > to find a port's portfile... Where is it? What is it called? > > Should one have to read the entire manual just to find this out? > typing "port file " will tell you the path to t

Xcode 4 issues

2011-03-10 Thread James Berry
Sorry for the cross-post, but as this issue has been on both the users and the dev lists, I'm posting to both. I know that there's a lot of concern about the cost of Xcode 4, as well as of some compatibility issues. I know the portmgr team has been thinking about this, and has passed on some of

Re: MacPorts is hijacking account on MacOSXServer

2011-07-25 Thread James Berry
On Jul 25, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: > David is right. This is a hard issue and believe me I have burn many, > many candles during Holidays and weekends trying to solve userIDs > conflicts in MacOSServers. > > It looks to me that MacPorts installer has these options: > > 1. Look

Re: Port won't install on 10.9

2013-10-22 Thread James Berry
On Oct 22, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 22, 2013, at 14:02, Gary Little wrote: > > Installing from the svn trunk worked for me as well. I do also note that > > you have to manually install the command line tools using

Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

2014-03-18 Thread James Berry
On Mar 18, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Eric A. Borisch wrote: > However, perhaps we should take a page from their book. Look at the homebrew > homepage (http://brew.sh/) > > * It would be nice a similar minimalist, "here is what macports does for > you" landing page. > * A one line copy-and-paste in

Re: MacPorts Statistics (was Re: usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?)

2014-03-22 Thread James Berry
On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Clemens Lang wrote: > Hi, > >> Just a concerned question: >> Why is that database given away to anyone who asks? > > I agree this is a valid question; let's discuss that before I hand out > any statistics data. However, there are other parts of the database b

Xcode 6.1 now available in the App Store

2014-10-20 Thread James Berry
Xcode 6.1 seem to be available in the App Store now. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: "Updating database of binaries" step very slow under Yosemite?

2014-10-20 Thread James Berry
> On Oct 20, 2014, at 3:27 AM, Clemens Lang wrote: > > Hi, > > - On 20 Oct, 2014, at 08:18, Lawrence Velázquez lar...@macports.org wrote: > >> On Oct 20, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Leo Singer wrote: >> >>> I found that the "Updating database of binaries" step of installing a port >>> became very

Re: "Updating database of binaries" step very slow under Yosemite?

2014-10-20 Thread James Berry
> On Oct 20, 2014, at 3:50 PM, James Berry wrote: > > >> On Oct 20, 2014, at 3:27 AM, Clemens Lang wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> - On 20 Oct, 2014, at 08:18, Lawrence Velázquez lar...@macports.org >> wrote: >> >>> On Oct 20, 201

Re: "Updating database of binaries" step very slow under Yosemite?

2014-10-22 Thread James Berry
> On Oct 22, 2014, at 1:06 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > On Wednesday October 22 2014 15:51:38 Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > >> On Oct 22, 2014, at 3:47 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: >> >>> I'm pretty sure that the scan only checks newly installed files. >> >> Correct. >> >> Only "new" (yet-to-be-sca

Re: Potential disruption to MacPorts domain registration

2012-03-29 Thread James Berry
@macports.org email aliases will not. Our IRC channel, #macports on > Freenode, will also continue to be available. Further information will > be posted in these two places if necessary. > > Background on the issue: > > James Berry, who handles the domain registrations for the pro

Re: Potential disruption to MacPorts domain registration

2012-03-29 Thread James Berry
On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> My take on this is that GKG.NET has at least one example on record of their >> behaving in a less than exemplary manner, namely using the BBB logo without >> permission: >> >> http://www.bbb.org/bryan/business-reviews/internet-services/gkg

Re: Potential disruption to MacPorts domain registration

2012-03-29 Thread James Berry
ki/MacPortsHistory > > This is helpful but not very detailed. It doesn't clearly explain how > much involvement, if any, Apple has had since this email was sent[1], > in which is was written that, 'James Berry, a member of the > DarwinPorts steering committee says: "We

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