On Mar 9, 2020, at 21:14, Angus Denton wrote:
> I have encountered two issues when attempting to update Macports it self
> before being able to update my ports.
> sudo self update produces an error
> error renaming
> "/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/tmp/ba
On Mar 9, 2020, at 14:47, ggrubb...@web.de wrote:
> I'm not sure, if I should simply wait for macports 2.6.3, or whenever the
> patches are updated
Updates to MacPorts base are infrequent. MacPorts 2.6.3, whenever we get around
to releasing that, would contain bug fixes for MacPorts base, but w
On Mar 10, 2020, at 13:37, dan d. wrote:
> Is it possible to install Macports using a symbolic link to an external drive
> via /opt/local?
As far as I know, we do not make any guarantees about whether that will work. I
think the topic has come up several times before over the years. It may w
On Mar 9, 2020, at 18:49, K Hindall wrote:
> On 3/9/20 7:01 PM, g5pw wrote:
>
>> You can use the inkscape-app port:
>>
>> $ port info inkscape-app
>> inkscape-app @0.92_1 (aqua, graphics)
>
> It looks like that port only works on macOS 10.15, and I'm on 10.13.6
What makes you say that?
It is
On Mar 4, 2020, at 14:46, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> just a heads-up -- the meson build system does not handle building +universal
> very well, as we know. So far I've had to add the muniversal PortGroup to
>
> at-spi2-atk and gdk-pixbuf2
>
> to allow them to build universal, and I would not be
It turns out the issue is with llvm-ar.
meson appears to look for this and use it over "ar" if it is found, but on my
systems, llvm-ar does not appear to do the right thing with fat static libs,
even if llvm-ar is part of a universal build of llvm...
you only have llvm-ar bare like that in Mac
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
As usual, you can then run "port outdated" to see the set of outdated
ports and "sudo port upgrade outdated" to upgrade them. However since it
has been well over a year since you last updated you may run into some
problems. [...]
As a data point I run
> I don't know where to start. Maybe someone can me point into the right
> direction, and give me some hints, how to apply patches
I have operating 10,4, 10.5, and 10.6 systems running hundreds to thousands of
ports that I keep humming along. My PPC machines are running right now, and run
many
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM Ken Cunningham
wrote:
>
> Some MacPorters are totally uninterested in older systems. That's fine, of
> course. However, MacPorts has about 10% of the market, and HomeBrew has about
> 90%, and if you ask me, one of the main thing that keeps MacPorts alive these
>
