Re: A general philosophical question about MacPorts

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:15 AM Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > I would have left macOS if I didn't have a package manager available, > the computer would be next-to-useless. Speaking as an ordinary end-user I agree with that; if not for macports I’d be even more tempted to switch to FreeBSD myself.

ncurses 6.2 failing with reinplace warnings

Hello, I am trying to update from ncurses 6.1 to 6.2, but am getting the warnings noted in ticket #60152 ; however, unlike the ticket report there my installation does not complete. The failure log reports: install error CHILDSTATUS 43121 2 What could be t

Re: macOS 11 Big Sur and MacPorts

Thank you for the timely warning. On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:06 AM Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Apple has announced that macOS 11 Big Sur will be released tomorrow, > November 12, 2020. In the coming days we will either release an installer > for MacPorts 2.6.3 for macOS 11 or will release a new versio

Re: MacPorts 2.4.3 has been released

Sorry to pile on, but same here. On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:14 AM Riccardo Mottola via macports-users < macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Lenore Horner wrote: > > Both last night after receiving this announcement and this morning I > > have run sudo port selfupdate and received t

Re: reinstalling Macports

Hello, I also had tk as a sticking point in my last run of "upgrade outdated" (after selfupdate to 2.4.3). It came very near the end of updating everything so I succumbed to temptation and forced it with -f. I haven't noticed anything going terribly wrong yet, but "tk contents" does show the X11 he

non-interactive switch in shell mode?

The port command N-switch (for non-interactive) doesn't seem to work in shell mode; is there an alternative? Thank you.