Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-23 Thread Xin Liu
it starts to install teTeX. Why would it do this? Is there any problem in the implementation of the "upgrade" command, or did I miss anything in the configuration? Best Regards, Xin Liu ___ macports-users mailing list macports-u

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-24 Thread Xin Liu
dea to force people install teTeX, because: 1) a lot of people are using MacTex; 2) the official teTeX has been discontinued. Best Regards, Xin Liu MacPorts is designed to use its own software, not any other software you may have installed elsewhere. See the FAQ: http://tr

Is There a Way to Know Full Dependencies?

2007-07-24 Thread Xin Liu
g and compiling start? I ask this because I want to easily find out the full dependencies of installing a package before installing anything, so that if I don't like a particular dependency, I can edit the portfile to bypass it. Best Regards, Xin Liu __

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-24 Thread Xin Liu
hing like _mportispresent{} to check whether the external dependencies have been satisfied. Or did I miss something? Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/24/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:44, M A wrote: > On 7/24/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >&g

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-24 Thread Xin Liu
by macports, he/she should use port style instead. Best Regards, Xin Liu bin style dependencies are discouraged because of problems like this. The upgrade code (unless you pass it -n, which is what you want to be doing to fix this particular issue for yourself) needs to upgrade library de

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-24 Thread Xin Liu
ere's too much confusion, and I don't think I'm the only one that is confused. As for the policy of "including everything in macports", I don't buy it, but it's another story and may be discussed in separate threads. Best Regards, Xin Liu bin style dependencies

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-24 Thread Xin Liu
use, especially for some users who do not want to understand portfiles. Indeed, that's why (as I've said a few times now), the bin/lib style dependencies are discouraged in favor of port: style dependencies. So... in the long run, none of the macport packages should depend on any external pr

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-24 Thread Xin Liu
> At least, "install" and "upgrade" should be consistent. They aren't because they do different things. A user is simply confused if they are inconsistent. For instance, when the guy invokes "install" for gnuplot (and he has MacTex installed), he is relaxed to find that no extra tex system is i

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-24 Thread Xin Liu
ake things clear. And a FAQ entry telling average users that "be prepared to install everything from macports; if something happens not to be installed, it's just you are lucky" would be nice. Best Regards, Xin Liu ___ macports-us

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-25 Thread Xin Liu
On 7/25/07, Daniel J. Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 24, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Xin Liu wrote: > A user is simply confused if they are inconsistent. For instance, when > the guy invokes "install" for gnuplot (and he has MacTex installed), > he is relaxed to find th

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-25 Thread Xin Liu
here any concrete example that a portfile has to use bin/lib style > for internal dependencies? all of them? I mean, is there any concrete example that a portfile cannot use port style and HAS to use bin/lib style? Best Regards, Xin Liu ___ macport

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-26 Thread Xin Liu
bin/lib styles should be installed anyway. I guess I'll live with the inconsistence of "install" and "upgrade", until some day the community cannot tolerate the lack of support for external dependencies. Then let's sit down and find a solution. Best Regards, Xin Liu O

Re: errors installing gv

2007-07-27 Thread Xin Liu
Last time I checked, this was fixed in gv-3.5.8_3. Maybe you need to update your portfiles by invoking "sudo port sync" first. Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/27/07, Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get the following errors when trying to install gv: >

Re: Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

2007-07-27 Thread Xin Liu
On 7/27/07, Daniel J. Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 26, 2007, at 8:05 PM, Xin Liu wrote: > > I think an easier and safer way of is to modify the logic in > > macports::upgrade{} such that when it tries to upgrade things in > > $portinfo(depends_build),

Re: errors installing gv

2007-07-27 Thread Xin Liu
How about your xaw3d version? And in case there is a previous version of gv on your harddisk, maybe it's worth doing a "sudo port clean gv" first. Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/27/07, Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. I did a por

libiconv problem

2007-07-28 Thread Xin Liu
My libiconv version is 1.11_4+darwin_8. When I run iconv, I got the following error: *** cookie:~ lx$ iconv dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libintl.3.dylib Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/iconv Reason: image not found Trace/BPT trap *** Best Regards, Xin Liu

Re: libiconv problem

2007-07-28 Thread Xin Liu
Regards, Xin Liu On 7/28/07, Daniel J. Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 28, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Xin Liu wrote: > > My libiconv version is 1.11_4+darwin_8. > > > > When I run iconv, I got the following error: > > > > *** > > cookie:~ lx$ iconv > >

Re: libiconv problem

2007-07-31 Thread Xin Liu
difference between these two sequences? Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/29/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 28, 2007, at 21:08, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > > On Jul 28, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Xin Liu wrote: > > > >> My libiconv version is 1.11_4+darw

Gimp-2.2.17 Missing

2007-07-31 Thread Xin Liu
Hi, I just found that the gimp in macports has been upgraded to 2.3.18, and 2.2.17 is completely removed. I'm just wondering, since 2.2.17 is the latest stable version, maybe it should be included in macports until 2.4 is out? We can name the port gimp2.2. Best Regards, Xi

Re: Gimp-2.2.17 Missing

2007-07-31 Thread Xin Liu
ould be helpful. Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/31/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 31, 2007, at 03:59, Xin Liu wrote: > > > I just found that the gimp in macports has been upgraded to 2.3.18, > > and 2.2.17 is completely removed. I'm just wondering, s

possible dbus dependency update

2007-07-31 Thread Xin Liu
Hi, I just found that dbus depends on docbook-xml-4.1.2. Since docbook-xml-4.2 is also in the port system, is it OK to update the dependency to be on docbook-xml-4.2? I prefer to installing only one copy of docbook-xml... Best Regards, Xin Liu

Re: possible dbus dependency update

2007-07-31 Thread Xin Liu
A further look shows that there are many versions of docbook-xml in macports... So I guess there must be a reason for a particular port to depend on a particular version of docbook-xml? Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/31/07, Xin Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just found th

Re: Gimp-2.2.17 Missing

2007-07-31 Thread Xin Liu
ython } *** Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/31/07, Yves de Champlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I have been using the unstable branch for many months now and > not only does it work very well, but it also fixes some problems > present in the stable branch. > > Now, uns

gimp2 and default variant

2007-08-24 Thread Xin Liu
e to recall which variants I have disabled, and I have to do uninstall-and-install instead of upgrade. Or is there a patch on the way to fix the "-variant" problem? Best Regards, Xin Liu ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: Gimp install no longer stuck- sure is slow

2007-10-05 Thread Xin Liu
he "mac os x support"? Best Regards, Xin Liu ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: No module named _md5

2007-12-28 Thread Xin Liu
You'll need to install py25-hashlib. Best Regards, Xin Liu On Dec 28, 2007 10:55 PM, Micheal Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found a post on this group about this issue: > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-March/001927.html > but it was not ve

ImageMagick Problem: Converting from PDF to EPS

2009-12-19 Thread Xin Liu
I've confirmed my PDF file is OK, because the conversion goes well when I use the ImagickMagick bundled with Ubuntu-8.04. My configuration: Snow Leopard running in 32-bit mode, MacPorts-1.8.1, ImageMagick @6.5.8-0_1+q16 (active), ghostscript @8.70_1 (active). Be

Re: ImageMagick Problem: Converting from PDF to EPS

2009-12-21 Thread Xin Liu
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2009, at 10:10, Xin Liu wrote: > >> I have a drawing in PDF, which is generated by PDFCreator from a Visio >> drawing in Windows. When I convert it to eps using "convert a.pdf >> a.eps", it l

Re: ImageMagick Problem: Converting from PDF to EPS

2009-12-21 Thread Xin Liu
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Xin Liu wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Dec 19, 2009, at 10:10, Xin Liu wrote: >> >>> I have a drawing in PDF, which is generated by PDFCreator from a Visio >>> drawing in Windows.

Re: imagemagick

2009-12-30 Thread Xin Liu
t; command did not complain about not finding a delegate. However, from delegate.xml I find that I don't really need ImageMagick to convert pdf to eps. I just copy the gs command in the delegate entry to a shell script, and it works. Thanks for the hint! Best Regards, Xin Liu On Wed, Dec 3