Re: macportstrac.sh

2010-10-14 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-14 19:40 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: I was interested in a simple and quick way to see if a port has any tickets in trac. I wrote a simple shell script as a starting point. Maybe there is already a command line svn-trac integration tool? I think this might be a nice feature to

Re: [72457] trunk/dports/devel/ld64/Portfile

2010-10-16 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-16 14:50 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Oct 16, 2010, at 04:53, mfe...@macports.org wrote: Revision: 72457 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/72457 Author: mfe...@macports.org Date: 2010-10-16 02:52:57 -0700 (Sat, 16 Oct 2010) Log Message: --- move llvm-config

Re: [72457] trunk/dports/devel/ld64/Portfile

2010-10-16 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-16 19:10 , Mike Alexander wrote: There's another problem with this. Since this executes ${prefix}/bin/llvm-config every time the port file is parsed it fails if whatever provides that (maybe llvm?) is not installed. This means that portindex fails with this patch if you don't

Re: [72523] trunk/dports/net

2010-10-19 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-19 22:51 , Anders F Björklund wrote: Ryan Schmidt wrote: And you still want to use both sha1/rmd160 rather than just sha256, right ? (In addition to the md5.) As I update ports I have been using sha1 and rmd160 only. I've been removing md5 on the theory that it is obsolete and

Re: [MacPorts] mk modified

2010-10-24 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-24 15:55 , MacPorts wrote: Changed page mk by m...@macports.org from 93.233.120.127* Page URL: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mk Diff URL: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mk?action=diffversion=25 Revision 25 Comment: Hmm, tilde not allowed in URLs, disable them for now Use =~

Re: Permissions for trac's wiki pages

2010-10-24 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-23 11:56 , Marko Käning wrote: I just noticed that it is possible for any registered user to create own wiki pages on MacPorts' trac. I found it strange though that it was not possible to delete a previously created page anymore. This, I understood, is only allowed to

Re: SHA256 checksums

2010-10-25 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello Anders, On 2010-10-25 10:31 , Anders F Björklund wrote: I think the main objection to sha256 checksums was that they were too long, even though one sha256 is shorter than two as in both of sha1 and rmd160... But one way to make it shorter is to use base32 rather than base16 for

Re: avoiding Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state.

2010-10-25 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-25 20:36 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Is Google able to search our man pages (are they online)? No, they are not. More than a year ago I started the new-help-system branch, which is intended to rewrite our man pages in asciidoc. This would make it possible to generate HTML pages as well

Re: Progress UI for Phases

2010-10-26 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-26 19:52 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Have there been any plans to make use of a `curl -# ...` style progress bar for the download/configure/install phases? This is for the normal, non-verbose/non-debug output. If I remember correctly such a style is not available from libcurl, but

Re: xmlto dependencies on texlive

2010-10-27 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-27 03:58 , Dan Ports wrote: Can move xmlto's dblatex/texlive dependencies into a variant, or better yet a separate port? As these are runtime dependencies, I assume we could remove them from xmlto and add them on individual ports who need that as build dependencies. Of course that

Re: Port groups howto

2010-10-29 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-29 20:32 , Marko Käning wrote: On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: ${prefix}/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/_resources/port1.0/group/ Would be an idea to update the Guide accordingly. :) The source files for the guide are at

Re: Port groups howto

2010-10-29 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-29 20:43 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: I suspect it's deeper, like the locking mechanism in MacPorts: you can do multiple non-install commands, but the moment you use an install command all others get locked out--even while it's doing fetch for its dependencies. Note that this behavior

Re: How to convert the Guide's xml source files into (chunked) HTML locally?

2010-10-30 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-30 20:13 , Marko Käning wrote: I figure there should be an XSLT stylesheet somewhere and a certain xlstproc call to make this task work… But before I start searching and experimenting I hope that someone can give me quick help on the list. There is a Makefile for this task at the

Re: Email Addresses in Man Pages

2010-11-01 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-11-02 01:13 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: But I'm not sure it's the best strategy to try to keep that list updated with new people. I don't know whom to properly consider authors of MacPorts. Can we just delete that section, or refer people to the MacPortsDevelopers wiki page? This section

Re: A few new features for `port`

2010-11-08 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-11-08 08:59 , Anders F Björklund wrote: Galen Wright-Watson wrote: I've a few customizations for the `port` command, and I'm getting tired of patching with each new release, so I'm offering them up for inclusion into the base, should others be interested. The attached port.patch

Re: A few new features for `port`

2010-11-08 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-11-08 15:26 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: When you want to see which ports you _could_ remove, that aren't depended on by anything else. There are times when you may have installed a port as a trial and no longer need it to be installed. In this case, it may simply be better to include an

Re: compile additional files after build

2010-11-10 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-11-11 02:32 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: After build I need to: cd ${worksrcpat}/driver /usr/bin/gcc blah blah I'm currently doing: post-build { system cd ${worksrcpath}/driver system CC=/usr/bin/gcc \$CC -bundle } You should be using ${configure.cc} and also

Re: Howto Section

2010-11-13 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-11-13 15:39 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Do we still need the how to build 64-bit binaries? how to? This was just an idea, *shrug* I added some topics as we introduced this section to encourage others to write more HOWTO documents. But seems like that didn't work out that way... ;-) Rainer

Re: Kismet and Tiger

2010-11-29 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-11-29 02:49 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Perhaps this leads us to another issue: why is the MacPorts site a mountain of text? Even our downloads must be found mid-sentence. Most of the website content was written by jmpp and he loves text ;-) I totally agree with you that the download

Re: Arch of .mo Files

2010-12-04 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-12-03 13:34 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Dec 2, 2010, at 23:01, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: I have a package that is on the path of being noarch, but `file` claims that the produced .mo files are a specific endian. Are .mo files architecture-specific? .mo files are machine-specific

Re: Tickets #26325 and #27283

2010-12-11 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-12-11 17:22 , Francois Claire wrote: The new ports in tickets #26325 and #27283 should be ready now. I committed both new ports. Sorry that it always takes that long to process your port submissions... Rainer ___ macports-dev mailing list

Re: Performance issue?!

2010-12-23 Thread Rainer Müller
I don't have a good explanation, but there are some aspects in virtualization which are serious issues for taking benchmarks inside the VM. Some operations may take longer or even shorter on a VM than on real hardware. As an example, in a VM the I/O operations can happen directly in RAM as the

Re: [74720] trunk/dports/x11/gobby/Portfile

2010-12-30 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-12-30 18:41 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: x11/gobby: Add missing dependency, fixes #27811x11/gobby: Add missing dependency, fixes #27811x11/gobby: Add missing dependency, fixes #27811x11/gobby: Add missing dependency, fixes #27811x11/gobby: Add missing dependency, fixes #27811x11/gobby:

Re: Option for a local mirror?

2011-01-02 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-02 02:11 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: This is the layout my existing local mirror already uses, and I don't really want to have all ports' distfiles in a single directory. Is there any way, using MASTER_SITE_LOCAL, that I can run a local mirror using the same directory layout as our public

Re: Problem with distfile, how to proceed?

2011-01-05 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-05 03:06 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: The problem here was I think that you were using a BitBucket-generated distfile, and they did not keep the distfile around anywhere; they re-generated it later, after you had already recorded its checksums into the portfile. I recall there was at least

Re: archive_sites in Portfiles

2011-01-07 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-07 04:39 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: I thought we decided before that we don't want individual maintainers distributing archives, but that we want a central server farm creating and distributing them? I concur with Ryan, having a central build infrastructure will be better. MPAB is

Re: [75039] trunk/dports/kde/kdelibs4/Portfile

2011-01-13 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-13 21:28 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: If you're going to do that, then you need to bump the revision too, to force a rebuild for everyone who already installed kdelibs4 without kerberos5 support. I'd rather avoid that, rebuilding kdelibs to change functionality would have similar

Re: [75134] trunk/dports/net/mtr/Portfile

2011-01-16 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-16 12:10 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: Perhaps we could change the port -d checksum output to no longer suggest the md5 checksums. That's already the case for an empty or missing checksums line. It will only print out sha1 and rmd160. But if a checksums line already exists, checksum will

Scheduled downtime on Jan 19, 15-16 UTC

2011-01-18 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, there will be a scheduled downtime for the MacPorts Trac and the Subversion repository due to a hardware upgrade at our hosting provider MacOSforge. The services will be affected on January 19th from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC. See the original MacOSforge announcement attached below. Rainer

Re: libpng transition?

2011-01-21 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-21 15:02 , Jack Howarth wrote: When I did a 'sudo port selfupdate' and 'sudo port outdated, the libpng and other packages were updated but the pymol wasn't. I am still unclear on how this mechanism can be certain to sequence properly. Since MacPorts lacks the ability to

Re: [75235] trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-phase.xml

2011-01-21 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-21 18:44 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Is this available on the site somewhere, or will each person trying to make changes be left guessing how to do it properly? All you need to do is 'make guide' in the doc-new directory. There is also a README. The Makefile expects the MacPorts

Re: libpng transition?

2011-01-21 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-21 21:41 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: Why are the effects of -R not the default behavior? -R causes a forced rebuild of *all* dependents recursively and will cause lots of unnecessary builds. There is currently no way to tell if an upgrade of a dependent is required. Note also, a

Re: libpng transition?

2011-01-21 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-22 01:21 , Jack Howarth wrote: Your argument doesn't make sense. According to... http://trac.macports.org/changeset/74954 the revision 1 change was committed on Jan 9th, whereas according to... http://trac.macports.org/changeset/75159 The bump to revision 2 was done

Re: [75406] trunk/dports/devel

2011-01-24 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-01-24 17:27 , ye...@macports.org wrote: Revision: 75406 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/75406 Author: ye...@macports.org Date: 2011-01-24 08:27:40 -0800 (Mon, 24 Jan 2011) Log Message: --- import libevent2 Added Paths: ---

Re: how to extend 'clean' operation

2011-01-31 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-01 00:19 , James Gregurich wrote: does workdir == $workpath? Uhm, yes, that is what I meant actually. Sorry for the confusion. I should have known better as in MacPorts anything ending with *path is an absolute path, while *dir means a relative directory name. If so, then that is

Scheduled downtime on Feb 2, 15-16 UTC

2011-02-01 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, there will be a scheduled downtime for the MacPorts mailing list server due to maintenante at our hosting provider MacOSforge. The services will be affected on February 2nd from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC. See the original MacOSforge announcement attached below. Rainer Original Message

Re: port my own applications

2011-02-15 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, On 2011-02-15 09:03 , Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote: I am the author of the Jubler subtitle program and a happy user of macports. I would like to ask if you think it is acceptable to create a port of my application. Although I have already a DMG version and an auto-update mechanism, I

MacPorts participation in GSoC 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, Google has once again announced their Google Summer of Code for 2011. They will begin to accept mentoring organizations as of February 28 until March 11. In GSoC students get money to work for an open source project over the summer. MacPorts participated in the years from 2007 to 2010 with

Re: MacPorts participation in GSoC 2011

2011-02-17 Thread Rainer Müller
Thank you for all suggestions! I will incorporate these into the ideas page in the next days. On 2011-02-16 10:25 , Joshua Root wrote: * When an action will run targets on multiple ports, run them in parallel when possible and sensible (requires tracking dependencies between both targets and

Re: [75992] trunk/dports/aqua

2011-02-17 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-16 18:39 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I would dislike removing vcs fetching because it is very convenient to use. It can be used correctly -- specifying a version to fetch -- maintainers just need to know that they need to do that.

gtk3 in category gnome

2011-02-18 Thread Rainer Müller
Hi David, you added a pre-release version of gtk3 a few weeks ago. I was looking into updating it to the final GTK+ 3.0.0. I noticed the new port lives in category gnome while gtk2 is in x11. Was this intentional? In my opinion we should move both into the same category. Rainer

Re: gtk3 in category gnome

2011-02-18 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-18 18:32 , David Baumgold wrote: I agree that gtk2 and gtk3 should be in the same category, but I figured that gnome was more applicable than x11, considering that GTK is the Gnome ToolKit. I'm in favor of moving gtk2 to the gnome category: does anyone have any objections? Actually

Re: [76421] trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/installing.xml

2011-02-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-23 22:05 , Andrea D'Amore wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: Of course, MP_EDITOR won't work for most users until we release a new version of MacPorts base including that change. Should documentation refer to a packaged

Re: KDE's application path

2011-02-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-02-16 22:52 , Nicolas Pavillon wrote: There are ways to circumvent this issue, but can hardly be automated on the Portfile. Typically, a solution may be to prepare a preference file with proper path already set in, but KDE's preferences are in ~/Library/Preferences/KDE, so that

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-03-01 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-01 16:45 , Dan Ports wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:34:22PM -0800, Dan Ports wrote: I see this as a high-priority issue that affects many people. So if we can get things closer to working by revbumping a bunch of ports, we should do that ASAP. Is there any reason *not* to revbump

GSoC 2011: Call for Mentors

2011-03-03 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, I am going to submit an application on behalf of The MacPorts Project for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program 2011. I think most of you will already have heard of it. Google pays students to work on various Open Source projects over the summer. It is also a good start for students

Re: GSoC 2011: Call for Mentors

2011-03-03 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-03 20:08 , William Siegrist wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: I will stand up to be the organization administrator again as I already did this last year. But we also need a backup administrator as a requirement from Google. Bill, would you have time to do

Re: portfile question concerning optional deps

2011-03-04 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-03 23:47 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: So I don't think changing the behavior of bin:- or lib:-style dependencies is warranted. Port authors just need to use the correct dependency style for what they're trying to do. My preference would

Re: How to remove a port from MacPorts?

2011-03-07 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-07 08:35 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Mar 7, 2011, at 01:18, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Mar 6, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Marko Käning wrote: I guess it would be good to include this in the guide. :-) I guess it would be. OK, when I successfully did my modifications to said port I'll

Re: Building the Guide produces an error

2011-03-09 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-08 23:52 , Joshua Root wrote: On 2011-3-9 05:28 , Marko Käning wrote: I get the following error quite at the end of the process: --- . . . Writing index.html for book guide/resources/xsl/common/stripns.xsl:10: element stylesheet: error : Reference to namespace 'exsl' not in

Re: [76912] trunk/dports/devel/bzr-svn

2011-03-12 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-12 23:53 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: We should probably continue to try to keep the epoch line *above* the version line, since it has a *higher* precedence for MacPorts than the version or revision. Placing it below the version line gives it the impression of having a lower precedence and

Re: Git port repo mirror?

2011-03-14 Thread Rainer Müller
On 03/14/2011 02:47 PM, Joseph Holsten wrote: Is anyone maintaining a port repository mirror in git somewhere? I've noticed a few personal repos in github, but I haven't found anyone mirroring the official SVN repo. From http://www.macosforge.org/post/git-mirrors/ MacPorts

Re: Use configure.ldflags-delete instead of configure.ldflags?

2011-03-18 Thread Rainer Müller
On 03/18/2011 09:58 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Can you give an example of a library that would not be relocatable? As Anders already said, anything that uses data files from ${prefix}/share or ${prefix}/etc and has these paths hardcoded for this purpose. Rainer

Re: Devtools opensource release

2011-03-18 Thread Rainer Müller
On 03/18/2011 04:40 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: http://opensource.apple.com/release/developer-tools-40/ so ... do we build/ship our own set of tools? As far as I can see this does not include any system headers which is a showstopper. Rainer ___

Google Summer of Code 2011: MacPorts has been accepted

2011-03-18 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, this is just a quick announcement that MacPorts once again has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program. If you are not already familiar with this: Google pays students to work on various Open Source projects over the summer. It is also a good start for students with Open

Re: Porting... the ports

2011-03-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 03/23/2011 10:01 AM, Daniel Heberl wrote: I noticed that Rocco Lucia updated in December the tar balls of Darwin Ports for Snow Leopard (http://alice.iscanet.com/~rlucia/devel/darwin_ports/files/darwin_ports-0.5.1.tar.gz). I see that, besides recompiling libfetch and libmd, only a few

Re: Handing over the sources of Porticus

2011-03-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 03/23/2011 09:10 AM, Daniel Heberl wrote: I asked Richard Laing if he had ever considered contributing to the MacPorts project by providing the sources of Porticus and he replied favorably: I have thought about it many times! I keep hoping to find some time to get back to Porticus

Re: Handing over the sources of Porticus

2011-03-24 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-24 21:26 , Chris Jones wrote: When it starts up it asks where my 'Tcl' path is... It says it is normally, '/Library/Tcl', but this does not exist for me... I'm running SL (10.6.7) and macports 1.9.2. What should I put here ? There should be a symlink at this place. Both the disk

Re: Handing over the sources of Porticus

2011-03-24 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-24 22:32 , Chris Jones wrote: So, short of reinstalling completely, whats the best way to fix this. This symlink is just for convenience, so you can package require macports in /usr/bin/tclsh. You can also use the full path as /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/ instead. Rainer

Re: GSoC idea: MacPorts GUI

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello Per, On 2011-03-29 21:34 , Per Österlund wrote: My name is Per Österlund. I'd like to work on the GUI for MacPorts. thank you for your interest in MacPorts. [...] I think it'd be a nice thing if MacPorts GUI reminded of the GUI for Mac AppStore and iTunes Store. Familiarity and all

Re: talkin' 'bout GSoC 2011

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello Bayard, On 2011-03-30 00:51 , Bayard Bell wrote: I've been somewhat active on MacPorts previously and am interested in becoming more active via GSoC 2011 in particular. thanks for you interest in MacPorts! My interests in macports are pretty diverse, so I'll start with some more blue

Re: [GSoC] MacPorts Usage Statistics

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-30 02:28 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: I would find it useful to collect this info. We discussed it briefly some years ago and rejected it due to privacy concerns. Making it an opt-in model would resolve that concern, but make the data less useful. I had envisioned this information being

Re: Google SoC 2011

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello Andre, thanks for your interest in MacPorts! On 2011-03-29 15:52 , Andre Murbach Maidl wrote: I'm a student and was taking a look at Google SoC proposed projects for macports and got interested to work in one of the below projects: Check dependencies after destroot Perl modules

Re: [GSoC][rev-upgrade] proposal

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-29 17:49 , Felipe Tanus wrote: I'm currently discussing on the list a proposal for binary dependency for GSoC program. But I wonder if is ok to apply for two ideas, both on macports? Yes. I like the rev-upgrade idea. It is a new command to scan for broken libraries and binaries.

Google Summer of Code 2011: Get money for working on MacPorts

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello, this is a notice to all of you who are a student accepted into or enrolled in a college, university or masters programs: Google Summer of Code is a yearly program offering students stipends to write code for Open Source projects. Students can choose one of many mentoring organizations to

Re: [GSoC][rev-upgrade] proposal

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-30 18:38 , Felipe Tanus wrote: How would you handle build errors? Is everything lost then and it has to examine all libraries are again? Can that data be stored and reused? I was thinking about pointing the error, then it was on users hand. Do you think on a better approach? Maybe

Re: [GSoC][rev-upgrade] proposal

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-03-30 22:08 , Felipe Tanus wrote: I think that would be nice if after each installed port we check for its runtime dependencies. Since this is related to rev-upgrade command, I thought in add this to my proposal. Does it makes sense for macports? What exactly do you want to check? Do

Re: images-and-archives has landed

2011-04-02 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-02 03:55 , Joshua Root wrote: As of r77511, port images are now stored as archives (ticket #19458). Basic operations all work for me. There's a new script run during 'make install' that converts existing image dirs into archives. It should theoretically work with the flat registry

Re: Tickets #28730, #28799 and #28879

2011-04-05 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-04 23:09 , Christoph Iserlohn wrote: can someone from the macports team please commit or provide feedback for #28730, #28799 and #28879 ? Committed #28730. I added comments to the other two. Rainer ___ macports-dev mailing list

Re: Do We Have depends_test?

2011-04-05 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-05 23:49 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Apr 5, 2011, at 16:46, Larry Gilbert wrote: Or is the PortSystem version meant for some other kind of change? I have no idea what it's meant for or how it's meant to be used. PortSystem is meant to be increased once we move on with incompatible

Re: Do We Have depends_test?

2011-04-05 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-06 00:59 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Apr 5, 2011, at 17:51, Rainer Müller wrote: PortSystem is meant to be increased once we move on with incompatible changes to the Portfile syntax. The version number is currently being used to require the port 1.0 package (base/src/port1.0). We

Re: Do We Have depends_test?

2011-04-05 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-06 01:22 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Apr 5, 2011, at 18:09, Rainer Müller wrote: New commands are not incompatible. Sure they are. A portfile using the new commands will cause a syntax error in old versions of MacPorts. Okay. I meant they are backwards compatible in a way that port

GSoC: Application deadline approaching

2011-04-07 Thread Rainer Müller
Hi, this is just a quick reminder that the deadline for Google Summer of Code applications is approaching. Submit your proposal now! Deadline:April 8, 19:00 UTC For more details about what Google Summer of Code is and how students can earn money for working on MacPorts, see here:

Re: So many formats, So few packages

2011-04-11 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-07 22:03 , Jeff Johnson wrote: Does MacPorts have a well-defined and documented means of attaching the new uid's to ports? Can you explain that a bit more? I know what a UUID is, but how are they being used in Mac OS X binaries or where can I read up on that? Rainer

Re: [m]pkg phase

2011-04-11 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-10 21:48 , Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: On Apr 10, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: Now that images and archives is in trunk, instead of hardlinking files into place it's just expanding the archive into place--or at least that's what it looks like. I've given up on it for

Re: [m]pkg phase

2011-04-11 Thread Rainer Müller
On 04/11/2011 11:07 AM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org wrote: I'm meaning just I don't use it: svn up svn merge -c -# Can we add an option to macports.conf to manage this behavior rather than merging back before the

Re: So many formats, So few packages

2011-04-11 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-11 23:48 , Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I don't know what Jeff is doing with UUIDs (probably something unnatural ;-) ) but I can say something about how they're used in Mac OS X. They're basically signed in to binaries using the codesign(1) command (see -i flag) and uniquely identify

Re: Local portfile masks portfile in main repository

2011-04-15 Thread Rainer Müller
On 04/15/2011 01:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: If you look at the output in the above ticket, it shows that MacPorts was aware of php5 @5.3.6 (presumably from the rsync port repository), but still chose php5 @5.3.5 (presumably from the local directory which came from an old ports tarball). I

Re: Checksum libraries

2011-04-15 Thread Rainer Müller
On 04/15/2011 11:29 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: Ryan Schmidt wrote: Since some people want to run MacPorts mirrors on Linux, I re-added the support for using libcrypto for checksums. Thanks! I like increased platform-independence. :) Make no mistake, MacPorts is still highly

Re: Checksum libraries

2011-04-15 Thread Rainer Müller
On 04/15/2011 02:36 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote: The instructions to install or uninstall MacPorts are usually regarded as almost unreadable, I have heard. I agree, it's too complicated. We also have different installation instructions on macports.org, the wiki and the guide. Rainer

Re: DNS lookups inside a chroot

2011-04-17 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-17 10:33 , Joshua Root wrote: Maybe you can help me out then. :-) I can't get (lib)curl or ping to work inside a chroot (as created by MPAB) because their DNS lookups fail: Actually I have no idea if Mac OS X uses this file (at least it exists on my system), but on Linux one would

Re: DNS lookups inside a chroot

2011-04-18 Thread Rainer Müller
On 04/17/2011 11:25 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Perhaps a better idea would be to enhance trace mode such that it faults in stuff on demand into a run-specific staging area. Read-only opens of the files in the system would succeed, of course, it being only creations or rw/append opens which

Re: [77990] trunk/dports/graphics/openjpeg

2011-04-19 Thread Rainer Müller
On 04/19/2011 05:39 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: What I mean is, they are debugging information; we probably don't need to install it. Here's an amusing little write-up that talks about these DWARF with dSYM debugging files:

Re: security projects thoughts

2011-04-19 Thread Rainer Müller
On 04/18/2011 04:04 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Apr 18, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:12, Bayard Bell buffer.g.overf...@googlemail.com wrote: I've read back on the threads from March about binary packaging and appreciate better what constraints were

Re: subports

2011-04-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-22 09:05 , Joshua Root wrote: On 2011-4-22 16:46 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Apr 21, 2011, at 16:07, j...@macports.org wrote: Revision: 78062 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/78062 Author: j...@macports.org Date: 2011-04-21 14:07:51 -0700 (Thu, 21 Apr 2011) Log

Re: commit / Re: [MacPorts] #29024: qt4-creator-mac: update to 2.1.0

2011-04-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-22 12:50 , Titus von Boxberg wrote: And, since quite often it is necessary to ping into this list to get patches recognized: How do I apply for commit rights? If this list is the right place, then please take this mail as an application ;-) The process is documented here:

Re: Proposed change to guide makefile (validate target)

2011-04-23 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-22 23:56 , Larry Gilbert wrote: Does anyone have any comment on the change I've proposed in ticket #28393? http://trac.macports.org/ticket/28393 I tested the patch, works fine for me. The only difference seems to be that no XML context is being printed anymore. But having the

Re: [77613] trunk/dports/textproc/doxygen/Portfile

2011-04-25 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-25 16:43 , Jeff Johnson wrote: You might want to think through what build policy SHOULD apply if/when you attempt binary packaging. There are many reasons for rebuilding and version bumps and metadata dependency adjustments involved with packaging. I guess if we want to ship

GSoC: Announcing accepted students and projects 2011

2011-04-26 Thread Rainer Müller
Mentor:Rainer Müller (raimue) post-destroot verification Student: Felipe Tanus Mentor:Perry Lee (perry) Derek, Clemens, Felipe, welcome to our community! Although you have already introduced yourself on the mailing list with your proposals, it would probably be a good idea

Re: maintainer timeout nc6

2011-04-27 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-04-27 00:59 , Clemens Lang wrote: I would like to request my patches from ticket #29146 [1] against the outdated nc6 port to be commited, since the maintainer hasn't commented since 11 days. Committed in r78192. Rainer ___ macports-dev

Re: rsyncing signed tarballs (Re: [79599] trunk/base)

2011-06-21 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-06-20 12:55, Joshua Root wrote: On 2011-6-20 09:25 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: So we're still rsyncing, but now we're rsyncing a tarball instead of individual files? Could you discuss this change a little? (Motivation, benefits...) I'm pretty sure we discussed the lack of integrity checking

Re: Simplify sourceforge fetch group

2011-06-21 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello Ryan, I agree we should take action on this. On 06/20/2011 07:34 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Should we: a) accept that we are not currently benefiting from the large list of mirrors, and remove them As you explained having multiple mirrors doesn't help right now as they all redirect

Re: rsyncing signed tarballs (Re: [79599] trunk/base)

2011-06-21 Thread Rainer Müller
On 06/21/2011 12:12 PM, Joshua Root wrote: On 2011-6-21 16:09 , Rainer Müller wrote: But I don't remember we ever evaluated the impact of using a tarball instead of individual files. I am not yet convinced this will scale in the same way it did before. In what way do you expect it may

Re: [GSoC] libelf license

2011-06-23 Thread Rainer Müller
Hello Felipe, please get in touch with Clemens as he already did some otool hacking for his rev-upgrade project. Currently he is looking into using code from otool and discussin license options with Apple Legal. On 2011-06-23 01:00 , Felipe Tanus wrote: In this project, I need to develop Tcl

Re: MacPorts 2.0.0-beta2 now available for testing

2011-07-06 Thread Rainer Müller
On 07/06/2011 02:15 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: And I'm not convinced setting it to /var/empty is a great solution. The issue in response to which you changed it from /dev/null to /var/empty was about a program's inability to create some sort of directory in home for its settings. So now it's

Re: [80215] trunk/dports/security/xmltooling/Portfile

2011-07-06 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-07-07 04:51 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote: +master_siteshttp://www.shibboleth.net/downloads/c++-opensaml/2.4.2/ Do we have a way of querying macports' portindex for the version of opensaml? That would automate this path construction. Hmm, are these versions on purpose x.4.2 or is

Re: Bogus svn:mergeinfo changes

2011-07-08 Thread Rainer Müller
On 07/07/2011 06:30 AM, Joshua Root wrote: Does anyone know how to stop this from happening? It's not causing any actual functional problems, but it does add irrelevant lines to the commit logs, which makes them a little harder to read. At least I found something about the problem on the

New Migration procedure

2011-07-16 Thread Rainer Müller
Hey, as registry 2.0 with 'portdbformat sqlite' stores the platform a port was built and installed on, the migration procedure [1] needs to be rewritten for the upcoming Lion release. 'port outdated' will consider all installed ports as outdated with a note saying (platform darwin 10 != darwin

Re: New Migration procedure

2011-07-16 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-07-17 02:03 , Joshua Root wrote: Well, you still run into trouble if you're coming from a different arch because of stuff like gawk and gsed that isn't actually depended on but will be used if present by just about every configure script out there. Otherwise the original 'port upgrade

Re: Upcoming Subversion 1.7

2011-07-16 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2011-07-17 01:53 , Vincent Lefevre wrote: * not all users are on Snow Leopard. MacPorts officially supports the latest two releases of Mac OS X. With the release of 10.7 Lion, we will be dropping the offical support for 10.5 Leopard. I don't know when Subversion 1.7 will be released, but I

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