Enabling a variant for an already installed port

2018-01-28 Thread Stephen Rasku
I just enabled bash-completion for MacPorts but the already installed ports didn't have this enabled. I would like to upgrade the installed ports to enable this variant. Eventually, I would like to do this for all installed ports but I am starting with Mercurial first. I tried this: $ port

Re: Enabling a variant for an already installed port

2018-01-28 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 28, 2018, at 09:17, Stephen Rasku wrote: > I just enabled bash-completion for MacPorts but the already installed > ports didn't have this enabled. I would like to upgrade the installed > ports to enable this variant. Eventually, I would like to do this for > all installed ports but I am

Re: Enabling a variant for an already installed port

2018-01-28 Thread Stephen Rasku
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 7:43 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > From what you've described, I can only conclude that you already had > mercurial installed with the +bash_completion variant. If you didn't, what > you did would have worked: OK, it seems to have actually worked. $ port installed mer

Upgrading gpsd

2018-01-28 Thread Dave Horsfall
On my weekly update cycle, "gpsd" was selected; and at the end I got: ---> Some of the ports you installed have notes: gpsd has the following notes: The xgps variant is now needed to get the xgps and xgpsspeed programs. What precisely does this mean? The manpage is not exactl

Re: Upgrading gpsd

2018-01-28 Thread David Strubbe
To install a variant, you would write "port install gpsd +xgps". I believe the note is saying that after this installation you will now have the xgps and xgspspeed programs: from this port gpsd, not from some other port. David On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On my weekly