Re: [GSoC] migration

2017-07-21 Thread Joshua Root
On 2017-7-21 08:22 , Umesh Singla wrote: > When we install, is it fine to use [mportexec $workername $install_target] from migrate.tcl? I’m sorry, I don’t know base well enough to answer this. Can you please ask Clemens or Josh? @Clemens @Josh, can you clarify this? If that's ru

Re: [GSoC] migration

2017-07-21 Thread Joshua Root
On 2017-7-22 11:01 , Umesh Singla wrote: Another thing that comes to my mind now is if, suppose, updated version of ncurses was actually required for some another port and reverting it to the older state could possibly result in breaking of that port. May be, we could get all the ports which de

Re: [GSoC] migration

2017-07-21 Thread Umesh Singla
Hi On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 5:39 PM, db wrote: > On 21 Jul 2017, at 13:02, Umesh Singla wrote: > > Unless we have a snapshot of the previous state, that is, before it got > hampered. > > But then again, we reinstall all the ports presently. At this time, it > could be hard for me to detect what

Fwd: [GSoC] migration

2017-07-21 Thread Umesh Singla
Forwarding this to macports-dev. -- Forwarded message -- From: Umesh Singla Date: Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [GSoC] migration To: db Hi > > Snapshot and restore should be able to be executed without migrate. > > I have a question and I haven't been following in

Re: [macports-ports] branch master updated: snowleopardfixes: new port to deal with missing functions in Snow Leopard

2017-07-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 21, 2017, at 12:56, Kenneth F. Cunningham wrote: > If it works like I think it does, PortGroup muniversal does manually what > Apple's driverdriver.c does behind the scenes for apple gcc compilers > (gcc4.2, etc) and is built in to clang … so PortGroup muniversal should not > be needed

Re: [macports-ports] branch master updated: snowleopardfixes: new port to deal with missing functions in Snow Leopard

2017-07-21 Thread Kenneth F. Cunningham
On 2017-07-21, at 4:21 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > "variant universal {}" declares that a universal variant should be offered to > the user, and that it requires no additional code as compared to the regular > build. > > "PortGroup muniversal 1.0" defines a universal variant that builds multip

Re: [macports-ports] branch master updated: snowleopardfixes: new port to deal with missing functions in Snow Leopard

2017-07-21 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
Has this list been added to the Guide? > MacPorts defines a default universal variant that works with autotools > configure scripts and some hand-made configure scripts. > > "use_configure no" declares that this port does not use any configure script, > therefore MacPorts disables its default

Re: [GSoC] migration

2017-07-21 Thread db
On 21 Jul 2017, at 13:02, Umesh Singla wrote: > Unless we have a snapshot of the previous state, that is, before it got > hampered. > But then again, we reinstall all the ports presently. At this time, it could > be hard for me to detect what went wrong while sync or upgrade. If I understood yo