Re: Beginner questions

2007-03-19 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
On Mar 17, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote: o Does MacPorts logs anything? nope (at least not currently). It is a pitty in my opinion, This feature is planned for a future release, its design still a bit up in the air and in the heads of some of us as still-in-need-of-implementa

Re: Beginner questions

2007-03-18 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 17, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote: It is a pitty in my opinion, as is also the lack of a "pretend" flag (always nice for me to know in advance what is gonna happen). These two are the main features I would personally like to have in the system. Anyway, maybe I will become familiar

Re: Beginner questions

2007-03-17 Thread Stefan Bruda
Hi, At 18:39 -0400 on 2007-3-17 Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote: > > o Are there references and guidelines for constructing new ports? > > I think the most complete documentation right now is the man page > (man portfile). There was some other docu

Re: Beginner questions

2007-03-17 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Mar 17, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote: o Are there references and guidelines for constructing new ports? I think the most complete documentation right now is the man page (man portfile). There was some other documentation in the past, but I don't think it exists anymore (and it w

Beginner questions

2007-03-17 Thread Stefan Bruda
Hi, I just came into the world of MacPorts. I actualy come from Gentoo Linux so for the most part the whole MacPorts process seemed wonderfully familiar to me. I stumbled upon some annoyances though, and I could not find any answers so I am hereby asking the following: o Are there references a