Re: RFC: Changing apache2 to install its files to /opt/local/ instead of /opt/local/apache2

2008-03-02 Thread js
Before anyone does anything, I'd like to know why you want this change. Consistency, period. When I upgraded from apache1 to apache2, it surprized me that there is no conf dir in /opt/local/etc and apachectl is in /opt/local/apache2/bin/. Let's figure out the pros and cons. A con would be

Re: RFC: Changing apache2 to install its files to /opt/local/ instead of /opt/local/apache2

2008-03-02 Thread Rainer Müller
js wrote: Before anyone does anything, I'd like to know why you want this change. Consistency, period. When I upgraded from apache1 to apache2, it surprized me that there is no conf dir in /opt/local/etc and apachectl is in /opt/local/apache2/bin/. I agree. Even more, the current apache2

Re: Checking if a given port is installed in pre-fetch

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 1, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: Is there a way that I can check if a given port is installed in a pre-fetch phase and display a message, e.g. using ui_msg, if the port is installed? You can do almost anything from within a portfile, but there are lots of things that you

Re: Checking if a given port is installed in pre-fetch

2008-03-02 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Daniel J. Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can do almost anything from within a portfile, but there are lots of things that you maybe shouldn't. What are you trying to accomplish? I want to upgrade the science/geos port to 3.0.0 but matplotlib-basemap

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Eric Hall
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote: I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ . You might be inclined to address any of the following

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Randall Wood
On 3/2/08, Eric Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote: I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ . You

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Blair Zajac
Randall Wood wrote: On 3/2/08, Eric Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote: I'm writing to attempt to gauge interest in whether and how MacPorts should participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2008. See

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-02 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Randall Wood wrote: I would like to see MacPorts use RPM for its installation database instead of whatever we have now. We don't have anything now. We've also tried to use rpm at various times in the past, but the impedance matching requirements have always