Re: libpng transition?

2011-01-22 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Jack Howarth : On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 05:25:46PM -0800, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: Putting your local repository ahead of rsync in sources.conf provides a valuable method of preventing software from being upgraded. That would be a valuable method if MacPorts had the version

Re: [69423] trunk/dports/tex/rubber/Portfile

2010-07-06 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
I never used conflicts. How does it work? And what does it do? I would expect that if you choose a variant, it will prevent any conflicting variant to be selected. From your first remark, I gather it is not the case. As I said earlier, variants, I can write (and conflicts, I will add), but tcl

Re: python_select dependents

2010-07-05 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Rainer Müller : Hi, the following ports declare a dependency on python_select: $ port echo dependentof:python_select glib2 rubber swig-python No port should ever declare a dependency on python_select, as this does *not* pull in any python That was exactly my goal. Yes I

Re: python_select dependents

2010-07-05 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Rainer Müller : On 07/05/2010 11:46 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Which means? When you install python_select and no python, the symlink goes to the system's python. Which would be against our policy that we are using our own libs and do not rely on the system. For example

Re: [65637] trunk/dports/audio

2010-03-29 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Isn't it redundant with py26-eyed3? Citando rmsfis...@macports.org : Revision: 65637 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/65637 Author: rmsfis...@macports.org Date: 2010-03-29 06:11:51 -0700 (Mon, 29 Mar 2010) Log Message: --- audio/eyeD3 new port, a Python module and

Re: [65227] trunk/dports/sysutils/moreutils

2010-03-24 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando ryandes...@macports.org : Revision: 65227 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/65227 Author: ryandes...@macports.org Date: 2010-03-23 21:10:34 -0700 (Tue, 23 Mar 2010) Log Message: --- moreutils: use a patchfile instead of reinplaces which can break in

Re: TexLive 2009 plans Re: [MacPorts] #16492: UPDATE: TexLive 2007 to newer version

2010-02-18 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Jeremy Lavergne : Your proposal sounds reasonable to me; that is a very similar approach to what Ubuntu (debian) takes, and I think it works fine. I really wish texlive would do what miktex does and use a package manager for each individual package. but oh well. Their collections

Re: The opendarwin .com debacle

2009-10-23 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Scott Haneda : Unfortunately, no, in my research, that is not the case. One of the very best things that could be done, would be for MacPorts to have every maintainer of every port contact the developer of that software, and ask for al link. I have done this for every port I

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-14 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Andrea D'Amore : On 09/set/09, at 09:14, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I meant a meta-port that would ensure either the MacPorts texlive port or an external TeX is installed. I understood it but I don't really know what binaries does a latex installation rely on, I was asking for

Re: x86_64 10.5/i386 fink 10.6 and the options for MacPorts

2009-09-14 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Ryan Schmidt : On Sep 14, 2009, at 08:01, Jack Howarth wrote: Coming from working with fink for all these years, the first thing that struck me was how painful it is in MacPorts to visually scan through the various Portfiles. In fink, if you are looking for coding examples of

Re: TeX (texlive) port status?

2009-09-04 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Dan Ports : On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:32:42PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Because we want to allow MacTeX installed outside of MacPorts to satisfy the dependency. This is an exception to the usual rule, because TeX is hard to build and the MacPorts TeX ports tend to lag far

Re: [52043] trunk/dports/tex/texlive_base

2009-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
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Re: Panther tickets

2009-05-21 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Joshua Root : Panther has been unsupported since 1.6.0 (as per the 2-latest-releases policy), and we're basically just continuing to provide dmgs for it because someone happens to have an machine with it installed and 1.7.1 still builds there without any special coercion. If this is

Re: Discouraging variants [was: Re: port install efficiency issue]

2009-03-26 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Shreevatsa R : On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: Variants frequently don't get tested when ports are updated, so things break without the maintainer realizing it. Exactly! I am glad there is some consensus on this point, although

Re: suggestion for package website

2009-03-24 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Jeremy Lavergne : I was perusing Arch's website today and noticed there's a flag package out-of-date link when you're viewing information about a package. Is this something we might find worthwhile for MacPorts since not everything has a livecheck? I presume it can put a

Re: [MacPorts] #18316: texlive fails to build while trying to install dirac

2009-02-02 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Jean-Michel Pouré : On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 17:40 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: See my bug reports. I cleaned and rebuilt texlive_base and it failed in the end. My macport installation is up to date. x86. I don't care about texlive_base, I am only interested in not breaking ffmpeg-devel.

Re: port revision depndency

2008-12-18 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Joshua Root : Ian Grant wrote: Dear List, Is there a way to specify a port is dependent on a certain revision (and version!) of another port? Sadly, no. I forget if there's a ticket specifically for this, but it's definitely on the to-do list along with

Re: [37793] trunk/dports/sysutils/moreutils

2008-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Ryan Schmidt : On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revision: 37793 http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/37793 Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008-06-23 09:07:32 -0700 (Mon, 23 Jun 2008) Log Message: --- fix install

Re: Depot dependencies [was Re: Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit]

2008-04-03 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Jordan K. Hubbard : [ Making another futile attempt to use a more descriptive subject line ] On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: I think it is a horrible idea. It totally defeats the feature of having multiple versions of a port but only one active version. Not at

Re: *-devel ports

2008-02-07 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando js : On Feb 7, 2008 1:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think -devel is better. For one thing, it's more intuitive. It was proposed that -devel ports should be updated to the latest stable version, if the latest stable version is newer than the latest

Re: /opt/local/bin/python2.5 as default MacPorts' python interpreter

2008-01-18 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Anders F Björklund : Guido Soranzio wrote: Currently there is no official python interpreter for MacPorts (in the past there was a link to python2.3 even when python24 was installed, IIRC) but many Python programs (or their shebang lines) expect a python command in the PATH,

Re: tetex/texlive dependencies

2008-01-14 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Ryan Schmidt : I hoped someone else would have something to say on the topic, since I myself don't use any of this TeX software. But they haven't so I will. I have something to say. On Jan 9, 2008, at 18:03, John Owens wrote: Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If more than one

Re: tetex/texlive dependencies

2008-01-14 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Ryan Schmidt : On Jan 14, 2008, at 03:18, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: At the moment, what dependent ports will check for is a texmf tree (provided by texlive_texmf-minimal and some binaries (latex, pdflatex, mktexlsr...). So the best dependency scheme would probably be bin:latex:texlive

Re: Our dear leech and our Google rank (Was: Re: 1.6.0 MacPorts release on 3rd party sites)

2007-12-20 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Juan Manuel Palacios : On Dec 19, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote: Hello guys! It's time to submit 1.6.0 to third party sites advertising for us. Don't forget to advertise on darwinports.com :-) --anders I'm sure that'll happen on its own, some kind of

Re: +x11, and +quartz variants (or a dangerous idea)

2007-12-01 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Randall Wood : On 12/1/07, Ryan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't make this generalization. There are ports, like ImageMagick, that have a +no_x11 variant, which I believe should continue to have them. ImageMagick can build with support for some X11 things, or not. By

Re: Added support in MacPorts base to set PATH and MANPATH automatically in Leopard

2007-11-29 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando James Berry : I just checked in some code (r31491:31492) that supplies and installs spec files for the /etc/paths.d and /etc/manpaths.d directories if they are present, as they are on Leopard. I thought macports was supposed not to mess with anything outside /opt/local. (apart from

Re: [30964] trunk/dports/tex

2007-11-12 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Revision: 30964 http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/30964 Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007-11-12 05:54:05 -0800 (Mon, 12 Nov 2007) Log Message: --- Put rubber in category tex Added Paths: ---

a tentative portfile for texlive

2007-11-09 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Dear list, Using Edd Barrett's work for providing a texlive package for openbsd and the porting guide he wrote http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett/texlive/, I made a protfile for texlive for macports that I just committed to svn. This port works for me but has not been thoroughly

Re: [30880] trunk/dports/tex

2007-11-09 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Ryan Schmidt : Oh, and: shouldn't all those patches be in the files directory? :) Oops, Moving them. By the way, is there a command for that other than for f in patch*; do svn mv $f files; done as svn mv patch* files/ doesnt work? By the way, as I explain in another mail, those

Re: Split Trunk

2007-10-05 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Rainer Müller : Emmanuel Hainry wrote: Being a simple maintainer, I would say that dependencies on specific version (à la debian this software require thingy version 2.2.17 but it is not going to be installed) would make me unable to manage seriously my ports. Why? I just

Re: variants, deps and upgrades

2007-09-24 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Yves de Champlain : Hi I'm doing some tests with gtk-quartz. Many hours of genuine delight garanteed. Now, gtk-quartz does not need Xft2 and xrender. So I made the quartz variant remove those deps. But port upgrade will try to install them anyway. So I thought of this. I

Re: ghostscript and X11

2007-09-06 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando N_Ox : Hello, As the recent discussions on this list concluded, each port should enable by default most of the features common user may want. Another thing i believe would be good is that lib ports with doxygen documentation should have a doc variant that build it. But, one thing

Re: Problem with liveupdate (zlib)

2007-07-11 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Simon Ruderich : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Now I checked it with other installed ports. It seems there are some problems with livecheck. No, those are not problems. It is a feature (called defaulting to something that makes sense in general but may fail).

Re: Prevent removal of configured files after Portfile change

2007-07-09 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
On 09 Jul 2007, at 14:46, Simon Ruderich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ryan Schmidt wrote: I think you're saying that you have a port that installs a configuration file, and that you've then changed the configuration file, and when you upgrade the port, your

Re: livecheck my ports (was: Re: universal syntax like livecheck?)

2007-06-15 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Ryan Schmidt : Though, I still find it odd that I have to use sudo. If I don't: $ port livecheck maintainer:ryandesign Error: Unable to execute port: /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_graphics_ImageMagick/work/.darwinports.ImageMagick.state

Re: zsh-devel +mp_completion variant thougts

2007-05-19 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Charlie Allom : On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:40:48PM +0200, N_Ox wrote: Hello, I've just taken over zsh-devel port and one thing seems idiot to me: What if there is a macports update and that i want to update the autocompletion port command file? I'd have to do a new

Re: port uninstall should consider upgraded ports

2007-03-09 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
Citando Yves de Champlain : Hi Example (the story is real, only the versions numbers have been changed) : port upgrade gtk2 ... port installed : gtk2 2.10.4 gtk2 2.10.8 (active) port uninstall inactive : can't uninstall gtk2 2.10.4 because gimp2 depends on

Re: Proposal: variants naming conventions

2007-02-13 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
I have noticed that most variants add or delete a configure flag in the form of --enable-*/--disable-*/--with-*/--without-* and maybe add or delete a related dependency. : : Therefore, I propose that all variants should fit the following forms: : : {en|dis}able_package: If a ported