Re: Splitting the guide

2008-03-06 Thread Rainer Müller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried this using DocBook but it didn't work for me. So I used a simple sed replacement to get this working. I created two examples: http://ruderich.com/macports/guide-link.html I like this one with the links. It makes it easy to get the URL which links exactly

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-06 Thread js
I wrote the Filename hierarchy standard for MacPorts. I know there's already porthier(7), but I thought it would be nice to have more specific standard. So is this meant to replace porthier(7)? Than you should write it up as a patch for the manual page. I don't think we need yet

universal broken in trunk

2008-03-06 Thread Emil Lundberg
In wanting to play around some more with 64-bit macports, I've installed 1.7 trunk (rev. 34799) from SVN on my PPC G5, 10.5.1. Installation went well but when I try to use the universal variant (no 64-bit stuff yet!) it breaks, like so: # port -d install jpeg +universal DEBUG: Found port in

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-06 Thread Rainer Müller
js wrote: - db Miscellaneous, automatically generated system-specific database files. For example, ... what? (Note that currently mysql data directory is created here. This is not correct.) No idea what is meant to reside here. Sure, mysqlX could also go into

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-06 Thread js
BSDs save system-specific data like locate.database here. might be good place to put macports dir. var/macports moved from var/db/dports in the DarwinPorts - MacPorts rename effort. Any reason? ___ macports-dev mailing list

Re: RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

2008-03-06 Thread markd
I wrote the Filename hierarchy standard for MacPorts. I know there's already porthier(7), but I thought it would be nice to have more specific standard. So is this meant to replace porthier(7)? Than you should write it up as a patch for the manual page. I don't think we need yet

Python framework transition

2008-03-06 Thread Rainer Müller
Hi Thomas, Following the IRC discussion from today with afb and mdickens, I wrote together a wiki page which documents how we want to do the transition to build pythonXX as frameworks. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/PythonFrameworkTransition Any comments so far? Also see

Re: Python framework transition

2008-03-06 Thread Rainer Müller
Boyd Waters wrote: I think that this is why I haven't committed anything; I've been building all Python 2.5 stuff via MacPorts as a framework build for about a year now. I had to modify all of my Python ports that I use so that they understand the symlink. Should be working

Versioned ports (again)

2008-03-06 Thread Boyd Waters
Rainer: Thanks for the clarification! Ah, I see... put things in the portgroup. Of course... On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: I am pretty sure I don't understand all the issues, I still think that MacPorts versioning (-24, -25, -30) is profoundly flawed, aside from