Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> Using the root account is not recommended; you should use an admin account
> instead.
>
> If you must use the root account, and you have no admin account with which to
> enable it the normal way, you can apparently enable it in single user mode:
>
> http://sachinparmarb
On Jan 14 21:47:43, mo...@macports.org wrote:
> On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
> >
> > The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, you should
> > update at least to 10.6... the 10.5 buildbot exists because that is th
On Jan 15 22:33:56, ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
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> On Jan 14, 2018, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> > On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote:
> >>
> >> A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
> >>
> >> The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, you should
> >>
> The issue is not whether or not I'm using the root account or not ;
> neither how and why I'm using it on my boxes - that's purely my own
> business ; and -frankly- please stay out of that !
It's Apple messing with your root account, not Ryan,
who, on the contrary, makes your system more usable.
Hi,
On 16/01/18 09:13, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Using the root account is not recommended; you should use an admin account
instead.
If you must use the root account, and you have no admin account with which to
enable it the normal way, you can apparently enable it in si
On 16/01/18 09:16, Jan Stary wrote:
On Jan 15 22:33:56, ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
On Jan 14, 2018, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote:
A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, yo
On 16/01/18 09:14, Jan Stary wrote:
On Jan 14 21:47:43, mo...@macports.org wrote:
On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote:
A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, you should
update at least to 10.6... the 10.5 buildbot exi
> > > The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that
> > > no users should need it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6)
> >
> > Why?
>
> many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always migrate
> their machines to the most up to date OS they can run,
Some
On 16/01/18 09:55, Jan Stary wrote:
The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that
no users should need it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6)
Why?
many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always migrate
their machines to the most up to date OS the
On 16 January 2018 at 10:16, Jan Stary wrote:
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> What is the proportion of the (would be) 10.5.8 packages to the overal size?
> (No doubt it's a lot of space, but what portion of it is one platform?)
Approximately one divided by the number of platforms. The proportion
can drop if many packages fa
On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> > > I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
> > > feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC
> > > machine is super slow and MacPorts is often the most important part
> > > that actually mak
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
>
> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC
machine is super slow and MacPorts is
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 6:16 AM, Ken Cunningham
> wrote:
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>
>
>> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
> feedback about problems on that platfor
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 8:16 AM, Ken Cunningham
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
> feedback about problems on that platform
On 2018-01-16, at 6:24 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote:
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> I just checked: a Core Duo is limited to 10.5.8 only if it has less than 1GB
> of RAM, but can run 10.6.8 otherwise.
>
> Marius
To get reasonable performance out of these machines I always max out the Ram
(cheap cheap cheap on Ebay) and
On Jan 16 06:16:07, ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I am stuck with 10.5.8 on this particular machine anyway.
>
> Are you sure about that? Even my most ancient intel machines, 32bit, can go
> up past there.
> even a macbook 1,1 can do 10.6.8
> https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macboo
can macports be less strict with aux packages download?
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(on osx 10.8.5, port version 2.4.2)
In installing xpdf 'port' decides to install perl 5.24 (I have already
installed perl 5.22)
then requires to install OpenMotif which in turn prompts
I was poking around on Udemy looking at courses on ethereum smart contracts the
other night. One looked promising but watching the course preview video showed
setting up the dev environment with "brew tap ethereum/ethereum" and then
installing the Go (geth) and C++ clients (eth) with "brew insta
Am 17. Januar 2018 03:45:22 MEZ schrieb Terry Barnum :
>(eth) with "brew install ethereum". I couldn't find geth, eth or
>ethereum in macports. Any plans to add these?
I think there is a misunderstanding.
Macports contributions / ports usually come from the community - i.e. the
developers or m
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