Re: Please help: How to ignore outdated package when upgrading?
On Apr 22, 2014, at 05:55, Asis Hallab wrote: Dear MacPort Experts, thank you for supplying MacPorts. It is very useful indeed. I am running MacPorts 2.2.1 on Mac OS 10.9.2 Mavericks. When running $sudo port upgrade outdated I get the following error Error: org.macports.configure for port postgresql83 returned: configure failure: command execution failed As postgresql83 is outdated and I already installed postgresql93 I want this update to be skipped. But $sudo port upgrade outdated not postgresql83 generates the same error. I searched the web on how to solve this as thoroughly as I could, but could not find any solution. Is there a way to uninstall all packages that depend on postgresl83? And why is [...] and not postgresl83 simply ignored? MacPorts did not ignore your instruction, but some other port that you have installed presumably depends on postgresql83, hence MacPorts was required to attempt to update postgresql83 before attempting to upgrade that other port. Since postgresql83 is old and you already have a newer version, uninstall it: $ sudo port uninstall postgresql83 This will presumably fail, telling you what other port you have installed depends on postgresql83. You can then either uninstall that port as well if you no longer need it, or see if it has a variant for a newer version of postgresql that you can use instead. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Please help: How to ignore outdated package when upgrading?
Dear Ryan, thank you very much for your answer. $ sudo port uninstall postgresql83 I did this forced with the -f switch. Unfortunately now I can not see which packages depend on postgresql83 - or can i? Is there way to infer which packages depend on another, in my case postgresql83? I will gladly uninstall them. Cheers! ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Please help: How to ignore outdated package when upgrading?
On Tuesday April 22 2014 14:06:19 Asis Hallab wrote: I did this forced with the -f switch. Unfortunately now I can not see which packages depend on postgresql83 - or can i? I think that normally MacPorts would tell you which packages prevent uninstallation (and then proceed if you supplied -f). So if you didn't get any warnings, it may be that there were no dependents. Is there way to infer which packages depend on another, in my case postgresql83? port rdependents package lists all dependents recursively (though I think it also lists packages you haven't installed). The other way to proceed, after you figure out which packages depend on an obsolete package you want to purge, is to do a port install of said packages without the variant linking to your obsolete package (e.g. perl5.12). This should typically give you a variant that depends on the new dependency, and you can then uninstall the other package. R. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
Re: Please help: How to ignore outdated package when upgrading?
On Apr 22, 2014, at 07:58, René J.V. Bertin wrote: On Tuesday April 22 2014 14:06:19 Asis Hallab wrote: I did this forced with the -f switch. Unfortunately now I can not see which packages depend on postgresql83 - or can i? I think that normally MacPorts would tell you which packages prevent uninstallation (and then proceed if you supplied -f). So if you didn't get any warnings, it may be that there were no dependents. Is there way to infer which packages depend on another, in my case postgresql83? port rdependents package lists all dependents recursively (though I think it also lists packages you haven't installed). That appears to require the port to still be installed: $ port rdependents postgresql83 Error: Registry error: postgresql83 not registered as installed. However, this doesn’t: $ port echo rdependentof:postgresql83 That produces no output on my system so perhaps it only deals with installed packages. This, on the other hand, lists all ports depending directly on postgresql83, regardless whether they’re installed or not: $ port echo depends:postgresql83 BigSQL libpqxx26 libzdb-postgresql83 MOSS ocaml-postgresql pgtcl qt4-mac-postgresql83-plugin qt4-x11 rb-plruby rb-postgres postgresql83-server ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
