Re: Failed cleanup

2015-01-10 Thread James Berry
> On Jan 10, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > > On 2015-1-11 00:18 , Clemens Lang wrote: >> >> >> - On 10 Jan, 2015, at 12:28, Mojca Miklavec mo...@macports.org wrote: >> >>> I already mentioned a while ago some annoying behaviour of macports: >>> sudo port uninstall >>> (maybe a

Migration instructions

2014-10-17 Thread James Berry
Given that the outdated pseudo port now returns all ports where the darwin version doesn’t match the current version, is it true that Migration of ports (following update of MacPorts) is as simple as: sudo port upgrade outdated This has worked well for me in the last few OS updates, inc

Re: Configuration and environment check command

2014-08-27 Thread James Berry
Ok, I’ll bite with a few more… port correct port audit port investigate port checkup port repair port fix port fixup port troubleshoot I rather like the last, I think. James ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.

Re: port echo prints trailing whitespace

2014-08-13 Thread James Berry
Hi Ryan, It does this because it’s prepared to handle showing the version as well. i.e., in port echo installed, for instance. The special cases could be changed to use a minimal amount of white space, I suppose, depending on what fields are being displayed. Note, too, that passing the quiet f

Re: New MacPorts web site

2014-04-07 Thread James Berry
Ryan, Congrats. I think it’s starting to look really good. A couple of quick comments: - I think I would swap-in “that” for “which” in the following sentence: MacPorts is a package management system for OS X which lets you easily install… (see http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/

Re: Mavericks java recipe?

2013-11-16 Thread James Berry
On Nov 16, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Christoph Iserlohn wrote: > Am 16.11.13 22:46, schrieb Ryan Schmidt: >> On Nov 15, 2013, at 14:04, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> >>> Before I do more work on #41378, I figured that I'd ask and see if anyone >>> has worked up a nice recipe for detecting a java install on

Re: "Can't find Tcl configuration definitions": better solution?

2013-10-28 Thread James Berry
On Oct 28, 2013, at 5:34 PM, James Berry wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > >> In article , >> Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> If you do that, make sure you only print that on Mavericks and later, since >>> on earlier OS versions tclCo

Re: "Can't find Tcl configuration definitions": better solution?

2013-10-28 Thread James Berry
On Oct 28, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > In article , > Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> If you do that, make sure you only print that on Mavericks and later, since >> on earlier OS versions tclConfig.sh is not part of the command line tools >> and >> it should already be there out of the box.

Re: [112573] trunk/dports/_resources/port1.0/group/github-1.0.tcl

2013-10-27 Thread James Berry
On Oct 27, 2013, at 5:45 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2013, at 16:45, James Berry wrote: > >> On Oct 26, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 14:09, jbe...@macports.org wrote: >>> >>>> Revision >>

Re: [112573] trunk/dports/_resources/port1.0/group/github-1.0.tcl

2013-10-26 Thread James Berry
On Oct 26, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2013, at 14:09, jbe...@macports.org wrote: > >> Revision >> 112573 >> Author >> jbe...@macports.org >> Date >> 2013-10-26 12:09:19 -0700 (Sat, 26 Oct 2013) >> Log Message >> >> Allow the github portgroup to specify that tarballs

Re: [112183] trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl

2013-10-15 Thread James Berry
On Oct 15, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: > On Oct 15, 2013, at 3:36, Rainer Müller wrote: >> On 2013-10-15 01:53, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 12:34, Rainer Müller wrote: >>> On 2013-10-14 21:22, jerem...@macports.org wrote: > Mod

A couple of port suggestions: jq and awscli

2013-09-03 Thread James Berry
I ran across a couple of utilities just now that aren't yet available in MacPorts. I don't have time to look at these at the moment, but thought somebody else might, as they both look good: awscli -- A cli for Amazon AWS, from Amazon: https://github.com/aws/aws-cli jq -- A very nice looking

Re: [102310] trunk/dports/sysutils/natsort

2013-01-31 Thread James Berry
On Jan 31, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2013, at 11:16, jbe...@macports.org wrote: > >> Revision: 102310 >> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/102310 >> Author: jbe...@macports.org >> Date: 2013-01-30 09:16:19 -0800 (Wed, 30 Jan 2013) >> Log Message: >> -

Re: MacPorts Mountain Lion Futures

2012-06-18 Thread James Berry
On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2012-6-19 13:30 , James Berry wrote: >> I believe Josh has put in the work already to at least accomplish (a). Do we >> need to create an apple-recognized official signing key for (1) before we >> distribute that? > &

Re: MacPorts Mountain Lion Futures

2012-06-18 Thread James Berry
would conceivably tell Mountain Lion to "allow" our unsigned binaries by path during install). James > Regards, > Blair > > On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:30 PM, James Berry wrote: > >> Here's a bit of dreaming out loud about MacPorts under Mountain Lion and >&g

MacPorts Mountain Lion Futures

2012-06-18 Thread James Berry
Here's a bit of dreaming out loud about MacPorts under Mountain Lion and future architectures in a Gatekeeper world. With Gatekeeper, there are three (or four) tiers of binary deliver we can/should/might consider signing: (a) The MacPorts installer should be signed. (b) The MacPorts-installa

Re: MacPorts 2.1.0 has been released - problems with the progress lines

2012-05-16 Thread James Berry
On May 16, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: > Clemens Lang wrote: >> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > Is there something I can do to switch this progess thingy off ??? >> >>> disabling the feature isn't really the same thing as just disabling >>> the

Re: Potential disruption to MacPorts domain registration

2012-03-29 Thread James Berry
ki/MacPortsHistory > > This is helpful but not very detailed. It doesn't clearly explain how > much involvement, if any, Apple has had since this email was sent[1], > in which is was written that, 'James Berry, a member of the > DarwinPorts steering committee says: "We

Re: Potential disruption to MacPorts domain registration

2012-03-29 Thread James Berry
On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> My take on this is that GKG.NET has at least one example on record of their >> behaving in a less than exemplary manner, namely using the BBB logo without >> permission: >> >> http://www.bbb.org/bryan/business-reviews/internet-services/gkg

Re: Potential disruption to MacPorts domain registration

2012-03-29 Thread James Berry
@macports.org email aliases will not. Our IRC channel, #macports on > Freenode, will also continue to be available. Further information will > be posted in these two places if necessary. > > Background on the issue: > > James Berry, who handles the domain registrations for the pro

Re: Xcode 4.3 and command line tools version mismatches

2012-03-23 Thread James Berry
On Mar 23, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Daniel Ericsson wrote: > On 22 mar 2012, at 12:04, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> But this fails if the user has installed Xcode 4.3 but not Xcode 4.3's >> command line tools. >> >> Is there a way we can discover the version of Xcode that the installed >> command line t

Re: Xcode command line EULA

2012-02-24 Thread James Berry
On Feb 24, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2012, at 15:08, James Berry wrote: > >> ... >> I mean, what are they protecting by making you accept a license agreement to >> run xcodebuild from the command line? What are they protecting that

Re: [90075] trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl

2012-02-24 Thread James Berry
On Feb 24, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> I'm honestly not sure, sorry. I did file a radar asking for a better >> command line interface to accepting and checking the status of acceptance, >> and that should work for your needs, but unfortunately that doesn't quite >> help with t

Re: [90075] trunk/base/src/macports1.0/macports.tcl

2012-02-24 Thread James Berry
I agree with Josh. Consider that we're just saying "I'm going to be calling myself 'macports' for a while, and I want Xcode to have my preferences while I do." The macports user is a user that macports controls, and is really just a proxy for the current user while macports is running. The irony

Re: Xcode 4.3 issues, potential solutions

2012-02-20 Thread James Berry
On Feb 20, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Dan Ports wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:41:00AM -0800, James Berry wrote: >> Any more information you can give about the failure mode would be >> appreciated. According to my testing, xcode-select -print-path can be safely >> run even i

Re: [90028] branches/release_2_0/base

2012-02-20 Thread James Berry
On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:49 AM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2012-2-20 19:32 , Dan Ports wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:48:55PM +1100, Joshua Root wrote: >>> On 2012-2-20 11:14 , jberry at macports.org wrote: Use xcrun -find to find xcode compiler if it's not found in /usr/bin. >>> >>> I deli

Re: Xcode 4.3 issues, potential solutions

2012-02-20 Thread James Berry
On Feb 20, 2012, at 3:15 AM, Dan Ports wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:32:48AM -0800, James Berry wrote: >>> (2) If developer_dir is not set, or is not correct, do the following, >>> in order >>> >>> (a) Use any valid value from: xcod

Re: [90028] branches/release_2_0/base

2012-02-19 Thread James Berry
On Feb 19, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2012-2-20 11:14 , jberry at macports.org wrote: >> Revision: 90028 >> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/90028 >> Author: jberry at macports.org >> Date: 2012-02-19 16:14:16 -0800 (Sun, 19 Feb 2012) >> Log Message: >> --

Re: XCode 4.3

2012-02-19 Thread James Berry
On Feb 19, 2012, at 9:00 AM, James Berry wrote: > Art, > > On Feb 19, 2012, at 5:11 AM, Art McGee wrote: > >> Sorry to intrude: >> >>> sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app >> >> Shouldn't the command actually be: >> >&

Re: XCode 4.3

2012-02-19 Thread James Berry
Art, On Feb 19, 2012, at 5:11 AM, Art McGee wrote: > Sorry to intrude: > >> sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app > > Shouldn't the command actually be: > > sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer > > If you use the former, then xcodebuild -version ret

Re: [89994] trunk/base/src

2012-02-19 Thread James Berry
On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:46 PM, j...@macports.org wrote: > set env(HOME) to our own dirs (#31827) and link user's xcode 4.3 plist into > them > Josh, Have you tested this? On my lion system, ~/Library/Preferences is 0700 permissions (and I don't think I've done anything to change that), which

Re: XCode 4.3

2012-02-18 Thread James Berry
On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Dan Ports wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 08:32:40AM -0800, James Berry wrote: >> - The record of whether you've agree to the license is stored per-user >> in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist: > [...] >> Maybe we n

Re: XCode 4.3

2012-02-18 Thread James Berry
Just a bit of information: - The record of whether you've agree to the license is stored per-user in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist: http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> IDELastGMLicenseAgreedTo EA0720 IDEXcodeVersionForAgreedToGMLi

Re: Xcode 4.3: where do xcode-select, xcodebuild, xcrun, etc, come from?

2012-02-17 Thread James Berry
On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:45 PM, James Berry wrote: > The idea behind Xcode 4.3, as I understand it, is that it can be a > first-class App Store app: it doesn't need to install anything as root, or > outside of its sandbox: it uses external installers for this (witness the > C

Re: XCode 4.3

2012-02-17 Thread James Berry
On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Dan Ports wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:53:13PM -0800, James Berry wrote: >> - Was Xcode 4.3 installed at that point? >> >> - Had Xcode been run after the install? (In other words, had you agreed to >> the license?) > &g

Re: XCode 4.3

2012-02-17 Thread James Berry
Hi Dan, On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Dan Ports wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:58:56PM -0800, James Berry wrote: >> On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >>> I had 4.2 installed, downloaded 4.3 from the app store, ran new Xcode >>> (4.3), told it t

Xcode 4.3: where do xcode-select, xcodebuild, xcrun, etc, come from?

2012-02-17 Thread James Berry
The idea behind Xcode 4.3, as I understand it, is that it can be a first-class App Store app: it doesn't need to install anything as root, or outside of its sandbox: it uses external installers for this (witness the Command Line Tools installer, etc). So if that is indeed the case, I have a que

Re: XCode 4.3

2012-02-17 Thread James Berry
Daniel, On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Feb 17, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: >>> sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app >> >> The Command Line Tools are not responsible for that. I believe this should >> be done for you when you launch Xcode.ap

Re: Xcode 4.3 issues, potential solutions

2012-02-17 Thread James Berry
On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:05 AM, James Berry wrote: > Sounds like there are at least several issues that MacPorts is facing with > Xcode, not all of which are new: > > (1) Make sure the Xcode terms have been accepted > > (2) Find the proper Xcode is use. We ca

Xcode 4.3 issues, potential solutions

2012-02-17 Thread James Berry
Sounds like there are at least several issues that MacPorts is facing with Xcode, not all of which are new: (1) Make sure the Xcode terms have been accepted (2) Find the proper Xcode is use. We can no longer assume /Developer (3) Ensure the command line tools have been i

Re: Xcode 4.3 missing X1SDK?

2012-02-16 Thread James Berry
On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: > Does anyone know what the situation is for Xcode 4.3 vs X11 SDK? > The Xcode 4.3 installation doesn't install the Command Line Tools by > default and installing Xcode 4.3 from the AppStore left the Downloads > preference panel in Xcode 4.3 sho

Re: xcode 4.3 breaks macports

2012-01-29 Thread James Berry
On Jan 29, 2012, at 3:48 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > On 2012-01-28 00:18 , James Gregurich wrote: >> I'm not sure if this is known or not, but Xcode 4.3 breaks macports. >> I'll report what I have learned in hacking my macports install into >> working. Note that /Developer has been moved inside th

Re: xcode 4.3 breaks macports

2012-01-29 Thread James Berry
On Jan 29, 2012, at 1:34 AM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 18:04, James Berry wrote: > >> (3) With my recent changes to finding compilers, we now use xcrun to find a >> compiler, but not to invoke it. One possible change that could help this >

Re: xcode 4.3 breaks macports

2012-01-28 Thread James Berry
On Jan 27, 2012, at 5:32 PM, James Gregurich wrote: > > expat. > > > I'm developing on 10.7 against the 10.6 sdk. > > > On Jan 27, 2012, at 5:03 PM, James Berry wrote: > >> James, >> >> I've check into svn a fix for the first proble

Re: xcode 4.3 breaks macports

2012-01-27 Thread James Berry
James, I've check into svn a fix for the first problem. We now use xcrun to find the compiler tools, and so can find the compilers okay. I hadn't encountered the other issue, likely because I haven't been building any macports app that use the sdk. I'll see if I can take a look at the other is

Re: [89359] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portconfigure.tcl

2012-01-26 Thread James Berry
On Jan 26, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jan 26, 2012, at 14:01, jbe...@macports.org wrote: > >> Revision: 89359 >> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/89359 >> Author: jbe...@macports.org >> Date: 2012-01-26 12:01:52 -0800 (Thu, 26 Jan 2012) >> Log Message: >> -

Re: macfuse

2011-12-22 Thread James Berry
On Dec 22, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Just wondering if it's time to remove this port given that it's been > abandonware since 2008 and fuse4x has effectively replaced it on all versions > of OS X that matter. The maintainer for it is set to "dports", hence this > query on

Re: Strange Behavior

2011-12-21 Thread James Berry
On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> If you want to enforce having a local port override the tree, what if you >> were to do that by enforcing that the database search for category:kde, >> etc, return only the first of any such items found? > > It's not so much a local port as

Re: Strange Behavior

2011-12-21 Thread James Berry
On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> This code is in opIntersection in base/src/port/port.tcl [1]. First, it >> creates a map from the port names to the list index in $b. If a port >> appears multiple times in this list, the last index is stored in the >> array. This is clearly

Re: MacPorts is hijacking account on MacOSXServer

2011-07-25 Thread James Berry
On Jul 25, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: > David is right. This is a hard issue and believe me I have burn many, > many candles during Holidays and weekends trying to solve userIDs > conflicts in MacOSServers. > > It looks to me that MacPorts installer has these options: > > 1. Look

Re: [79522] branches/gsoc11-statistics/base/src/port/port.tcl

2011-06-16 Thread James Berry
On Jun 16, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Jun 16, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> I assume you are correct. I'm not sure whether Bradley was pointing this out >> as a good or bad thing, but in my opinion it might be a bad thing. If I have >> ports installed that are not p

Xcode 4 issues

2011-03-10 Thread James Berry
Sorry for the cross-post, but as this issue has been on both the users and the dev lists, I'm posting to both. I know that there's a lot of concern about the cost of Xcode 4, as well as of some compatibility issues. I know the portmgr team has been thinking about this, and has passed on some of

Re: Filesize in Portfiles (was Re: [76684] trunk/dports/sysutils/rpm/Portfile)

2011-03-08 Thread James Berry
On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >>> Currently, we are updating four: version (i.e. affecting the distfile), >>> md5, sha1, rmd160. Just saying that it would be less clutter to have, say >>> "SIZE" and "SHA256" collected in a "distinfo" file,

Re: multiple arch flags won't work with -E

2011-02-03 Thread James Berry
On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Toby Peterson wrote: > On Feb 2, 2011, at 5:49 PM, James Gregurich wrote: > >> I"m not sure what to do about this one. The expat port does not use >> muniversal to do a universal build. The configure script fails when it >> attempts to invoke the preprocessor. Is t

Thanking the MacPorts team

2011-01-16 Thread James Berry
I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the last year and thank the great team at MacPorts for all the work that's been done over the last year by port Committers and Maintainers, the PortMgr team, and by all the users who file bug reports. MacPorts has 136 committers, something like 7671 ports

Re: Looking for maintainer interested in Java ports

2010-10-11 Thread James Berry
Dave, One other note: you may want to check in and coordinate with Blair Zajac who is one of the maintainers of the maven2 and maven3 ports. James On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:22 AM, James Berry wrote: > Hi Dave, > > You're not already a MacPorts committer, right? Why don

Re: Looking for maintainer interested in Java ports

2010-10-11 Thread James Berry
Hi Dave, You're not already a MacPorts committer, right? Why don't you prepare any patches you want to Maven, and submit them as a ticket. Among that change should be your change to the maintainer line. Please note in the ticket that you want to become maintainer of the port. Also, please let m

Re: Looking for maintainer interested in Java ports

2010-10-08 Thread James Berry
Blair, Thanks! I've assigned these to you. They're happy to find a good home. James On Oct 8, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: > On 10/08/2010 09:00 AM, James Berry wrote: >> I'm listed as a maintainer on a lot of key Java ports, which I've been sadly >

Looking for maintainer interested in Java ports

2010-10-08 Thread James Berry
I'm listed as a maintainer on a lot of key Java ports, which I've been sadly neglecting of late because I'm not doing much with Java recently. Is there anybody out there who would be interested in adopting those ports? James ___ macports-dev mailing li

Re: darwinports.com legal action

2010-03-07 Thread James Berry
When we last looked into forming a legal entity for MacPorts, we decided that creating our own legal entity was probably too onerous and too expense, both in terms of up-front money and in terms of annual costs and legal/accounting maintenance. One of the options that we considered then, and sh

Re: The opendarwin .com debacle

2009-10-22 Thread James Berry
So all of this comes down to page rank for our site vs that "other" site. I've got to believe we have better incoming links to our site, so if we better structured our site to do cross linking between categories (and perhaps stoop to the subdomain tricks he does), we could presumably impr

Re: The opendarwin .com debacle

2009-10-14 Thread James Berry
Well, Mat Caughron , or caugh...@gmail.com, who is the guy who runs the darwinports [dot] com site in question, and who makes money by confusing our users and soliciting donations for the work of the macports proejct, none of which ever get to the project, is a apparently a consultant who p

Re: Deprecating port list

2009-03-13 Thread James Berry
On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Andre Stechert wrote: A good answer is that if you read the reply I just gave to Ryan, you'll see that port echo is extremely lightweight, and meant to be so. It just tells you what you told it. It really doesn't have the information that port list gets. And if

Re: Deprecating port list

2009-03-13 Thread James Berry
On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Andre Stechert wrote: The difference in the output between 'port installed' and 'port echo installed' seems to be about as minor as the difference between 'port echo installed' and 'port list installed': 'port installed' lines look like: a52dec @0.7.4_0 (active) '

Re: Deprecating port list

2009-03-13 Thread James Berry
Hi Ryan, On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:42 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I have not used "port list" or "port echo" very often. Now that I'm looking at them, I'm confused about echo's behavior. I'll try to answer this; the reasons for this are a little subtle. As the author of this stuff, at least I unde

Re: Removal of port options i and x

2009-03-13 Thread James Berry
Hi Bryan, On Mar 12, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: I'd like to see two options from port removed, -i and -x. For -i, the man page says Read commands from stdin. Short for -F - which means for handling commands from, eg, pipes. However, not using -i does that anyway as "echo

Re: MacPorts 1.7.0 has been released

2008-12-14 Thread James Berry
Congratulations to all of those who worked so hard on this release, and who pulled the final rabbit out of the hat by releasing it! Well done. James On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote: The MacPorts Project is happy to announce that, after nearly a year in the making, the 1.7

Re: Terms? Re: New PortMgr team announced!

2008-10-14 Thread James Berry
> PortMgr by July 1st, 2009, so as to give plenty of notice in case > they need a replacement. > > Is that reasonable? > > -- Ernie P. > > On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:39 AM, James Berry wrote: > >> The (current) PortMgr team is pleased to be able to announce the >

New PortMgr team announced!

2008-10-14 Thread James Berry
The (current) PortMgr team is pleased to be able to announce the appointment of a new PortMgr team. Four people expressed interest in the PortMgr positions, and have all been appointed by proclamation: Ryan Schmidt Rainer Müller Joshua Root Bryan Blackburn W

Call for PortMgr interest/nominations

2008-10-08 Thread James Berry
Per my previous note to Jordan, I'd like to set a deadline of this coming Friday, Oct 10, for those wishing to be part of the new PortMgr slate. If you are interested in these posts, please express your interest, or ask somebody to nominate you, by that time. In throwing in your hat, or acc

Re: [macports-mgr] Hey, I would like to propose that we cut the gordian knot.

2008-10-08 Thread James Berry
Hi Jordan, As usual, you work well to cut through the bureaucracy ;) I'm not so opposed to going along with your suggestion to just get this thing done, or that an official "vote" may be superflous. But I also think it's premature to assume that the list of nominees so far, is complete, g

Re: [PATCH] Inheritance of macports.conf configuration files

2008-09-30 Thread James Berry
Adam, Thanks for the patch. This looks good to me. Does anybody have a use case where inheritance is not the right thing here? James On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Adam Byrtek wrote: There had been no response to my previous post (quoted below), so I decided to try again. Could one of the M

Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

2008-09-30 Thread James Berry
As many of you know, MacPorts is loosely governed by the "PortMgr" team, which is currently made up of three people: Markus Weissmann, Juan Manual Palacios, and James Berry. We each love MacPorts, and hope to see it continue to prosper and grow in the future. And we want to c

Re: [37774] trunk/dports/net/sobby/Portfile

2008-06-22 Thread James Berry
Hi Philip, Just a reminder to you (and others): If there is no other maintainer, then the maintainer should be set to "nomaintainer". "openmaintainer" should be used only in conjunction with a primary maintainer(s), indicating that the primary maintainer is willing for others to make chang

Re: Jaguar support

2008-06-13 Thread James Berry
Our official policy is to support only the two most recent OS versions. I think I interpret that pretty loosely. For those working on MacPorts base: - Don't kill worry too much about keeping stuff alive pre-Tiger, or about not implementing features that might not work pre-Tiger.

Re: Website

2008-06-13 Thread James Berry
Bill, Done. The test host is wwt.macports.org. James On Jun 13, 2008, at 10:24 AM, William Siegrist wrote: > James, can you add a domain for this test website? Maybe Randall > has a desired hostname, but anything should do. www2? www-test? > test? Just point it to the same IP as the real w

Re: Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit

2008-04-02 Thread James Berry
On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Eric Hall wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 02:02:57AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Florian Ebeling wrote: This is sadly somewhat controversial. I think dependencies should definitely be directed at the depot lo

Re: Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit

2008-03-31 Thread James Berry
On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: There are two few committers for dports/ and REALLY very few committers for base/ - I think we should be more liberal in allowing new committers, being ever mindful of the fact that source control always means you can back things out (a

Re: Ticket #14796 (pike): please commit

2008-03-31 Thread James Berry
On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: No offense to jmpp intended, but I think what macports is really lacking is effective technical leadership. There are a lot of good ideas floating around, but nobody really driving the

MacPorts GSoC application!!! Extended!!! Students can earn summer money $$$ and prestige!!!

2008-03-31 Thread James Berry
Those of you who are a college student, work on a college campus, know college students, or have a college student as a child, please notice: The Google Summer of Code student application deadline for 2008 has been extended for one week to April 7. This means that students have one addition

Re: [35353] tinyca2 Lint Report

2008-03-26 Thread James Berry
On Mar 26, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Landon Fuller wrote: Why does that matter? These "your contribution is in error!" mails are soul draining. It makes one feel as if you've stumbled into the Department of Motor Vehicles and forgot registration form B.5. I agree fully with Landon. The automated

Re: [35275] trunk/dports

2008-03-24 Thread James Berry
Hi Thomas, On Mar 23, 2008, at 8:58 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Thomas Reifferscheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear James, I dont feel well with your changes. It will make life even harder for submitters to the ticket database choosing the right maintainer. W

Re: [35275] trunk/dports

2008-03-24 Thread James Berry
Hi Thomas, On Mar 23, 2008, at 8:58 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Thomas Reifferscheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear James, I dont feel well with your changes. It will make life even harder for submitters to the ticket database choosing the right maintainer. W

Re: [macports-mgr] Google SoC 2008

2008-03-11 Thread James Berry
t; > -Bill > > > > On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Gah! If it's me or nobody, I'll do it. :-) We really shouldn't >> let >> the opportunity just slip through our fingers. Hey, Jumpy, where are >> you? :-) >>

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-07 Thread James Berry
esday, March 12. Anybody? James On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:27 AM, James Berry wrote: > Thanks to everybody who pitched ideas for GSoC 2008. > > Now the rubber needs to meet the road. We need: > > - Somebody to head up our GSoC 2008 effort (get us signed up with > Google, do

Re: Google SoC 2008

2008-03-04 Thread James Berry
student applications. The number of student applications is probably guided in part by several factors: promotion and appeal to the student community; number and appeal of project proposals; etc. James On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:48 PM, James Berry wrote: > I'm writing to attempt

Google SoC 2008

2008-02-29 Thread James Berry
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 questions: - Do you feel MacPorts should participate in GSoC 2008?

Re: upgrading a port with no maintainer

2008-01-21 Thread James Berry
On Jan 21, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Kevin Van Vechten wrote: On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:15 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: Whatever happened to the "port submit" project initiative anyway? Wasn't that supposed to come about for free with the remote index? :-) Sure, it was! Remote Index would have

Re: Subject: [32751] net/dhcp startupitem

2008-01-13 Thread James Berry
Hi Mark, So it looks like the bit magic that got this to work is the -f command, which basically tells dhcpd not to daemonize, which would be a good thing in our case, as the process of daemonizing would look to daemondo or launchd as if dhcpd were exiting, which would cause the constantl

MacPorts servers will be down for a bit in about 5 hours

2008-01-07 Thread James Berry
Our friends at MacOSForge tell us that the servers running macports will be down in about 5 hours for some scheduled maintenance: We need to take the servers down briefly to apply some updates and configuration changes. All services will have 5-10m of downtime starting around 8PM on Monday.

Re: [32441] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portchecksum.tcl

2008-01-01 Thread James Berry
Hi Ryan, On Jan 1, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 1, 2008, at 11:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revision: 32441 http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/32441 Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008-01-01 09:09:21 -0800 (Tue, 01 Jan 2008) Log Message: -

Re: [31640] trunk/base

2007-12-02 Thread James Berry
Hi Ryan, On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Nov 30, 2007, at 21:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ChangeLog was orignally meant to be a user-parsable file listing only major changes to base, so that we could use it in our release process to advertise our new goodies. Unfortu

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

2007-12-02 Thread James Berry
ts functionality: *) one is a corner-case bugfix against the "dp2mp-move" upgrade code (paths with spaces embedded in them), which I satisfactorily tested, and *) the other is the path munging work by James Berry, which I'm inclined to remove from the branch. Note please that m

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

2007-12-02 Thread James Berry
Hi Juan, On Dec 2, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: So, has any conclusion been reached for this issue? I'm inclined to backing this feature out of the release_1_6 branch until a working consensus is reached, and only release it to the public at that time (in 1.6.x (x > 0)). U

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

2007-11-29 Thread James Berry
Hi Kirk, On Nov 29, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Kirk Kelsey wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 7:43 PM, James Berry wrote: The /etc/[man]paths.d/macports approach is equivalent, and cleaner than hitting the /etc/[man]paths files. read path_helper(8). James Equivalent in that they are both used by

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

2007-11-29 Thread James Berry
wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:43 PM, James Berry wrote: I think it's a question for the group in general: which is the best approach? The range of choices we have is basically to pick from the following menu: - Install a file into /etc/manpaths.d/ - Install

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

2007-11-29 Thread James Berry
Hi Kirk, On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Kirk Kelsey wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:43 PM, James Berry wrote: I think it's a question for the group in general: which is the best approach? The range of choices we have is basically to pick from the following menu: - Install a file

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

2007-11-29 Thread James Berry
Hi Emmanuel, On Nov 29, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: 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

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

2007-11-29 Thread James Berry
On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:16 AM, Adam Mercer wrote: On 29/11/2007, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only way to turn it off is to manually remove or modify the files installed by macports. Note that having the paths in your PATHs twice shouldn't hurt anything and probably a

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

2007-11-29 Thread James Berry
Hi Adam, On Nov 29, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Adam Mercer wrote: On 25/11/2007, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 25, 2007, at 1:14 PM, James Berry wrote: I just checked in some code (r31491:31492) that supplies and installs spec files for the /etc/paths.d and /etc/manp

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