Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:54 AM, belinda thom wrote: Thanks for your careful answers. I've learned a lot. Its weird...in the tools there is an .el file (for emacs). But nothing re: pythonbindings is there. I looked at debian's related subversion tools to get a feel for what tools one might expec

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:31 PM, John Labovitz wrote: Hm. At one point this was not true. I distinctly remember needing to add some variant in order to get to WebDAV repos. Maybe that has changed. That would be good, as it always seemed like

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread belinda thom
Ryan, Thanks for your careful answers. I've learned a lot. Its weird...in the tools there is an .el file (for emacs). But nothing re: pythonbindings is there. I looked at debian's related subversion tools to get a feel for what tools one might expect (the macports src links for tools was g

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:31 PM, John Labovitz wrote: Actually, mod_dav_svn lets you *serve* repositories over WebDAV. To *access* WebDAV repositories, all you need is neon (that is, you want to *not* specify +no_neon). Hm. At one point this was not true. I distinctly remember needing to add

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 7, 2007, at 20:36, belinda thom wrote: One final question: how does port handle the case where you've already installed something (e.g. subversion) and you then want to "add on" a variant (e.g. +tools)? Does it do a completely new reinstall, or does it piggy-back off of existing thin

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread js
Unfortunately there's no simple, standard way to tell what variants one might want for any given port. It would be nice if MacPorts showed more context on a variant, but as far as I can tell, it's up to the given port maintainer. Sometimes when I'm faced with a similar question, I'll look at the

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread belinda thom
Hi, One final question: how does port handle the case where you've already installed something (e.g. subversion) and you then want to "add on" a variant (e.g. +tools)? Does it do a completely new reinstall, or does it piggy-back off of existing things when it can? Is it standard practice

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 18:25, John Labovitz wrote: I will say that from experience you will probably want +mod_dav_svn, as it provides access to WebDAV-hosted repositories, which includes many public SVN repos. I've tried building Subversion wi

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread belinda thom
Thanks Ryan! On Jan 7, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 17:28, belinda thom wrote: How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversio

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 7, 2007, at 17:28, belinda thom wrote: How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon, no_b

Re: variants question

2007-01-07 Thread John Labovitz
On Jan 7, 2007, at 3:28 PM, belinda thom wrote: How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon, no

variants question

2007-01-07 Thread belinda thom
Hi, How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra variants used? In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is: 32 % port info subversion subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon, no_bdb, mac_os_x_server_mod_dav_svn, tools, da

Re: py-wxpython build problem

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 7, 2007, at 15:49, Bas den Hond wrote: I learned my lesson, though: I am now a collector of Portfiles, and I will be backing up, not throwing away the old ones... There is no need to do anything like that. You could instead switch your port tree over to a Subversion checkout, and the

Eterm 0.9.4

2007-01-07 Thread Darrel
Previously I used 'Eterm @0.9.3_1+background' in DarwinPorts. Today I ran sudo rm -rf /opt/local /Applications/DarwinPorts \ /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \ /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup and then used Subversion to checkout macports-trunk. Next I installed MacPorts, but

Re: py-wxpython build problem

2007-01-07 Thread Bas den Hond
Thanks a lot! Meanwhile, I succeeded yesterday in making do with wxWidgets 2.6.3, by putting back the old Portfile that I found at the legacy Darwinports site (less work than working out the diff from the MacPorts site). But having 2.8.0.1 is much better, I'm led to believe, so I'll start

Re: mysql start

2007-01-07 Thread eoghan
On 7 Jan 2007, at 20:34, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 14:16, eoghan wrote: I installed mysql with php... sudo port -v install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 So I assume I havent installed the client... You *have* installed the client. Asking for php5 +mysql5 adds a dependency on mysql5.

Re: mysql start

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 7, 2007, at 14:16, eoghan wrote: I installed mysql with php... sudo port -v install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 So I assume I havent installed the client... You *have* installed the client. Asking for php5 +mysql5 adds a dependency on mysql5. If you haven't already installed the mysql5 p

Re: dmg

2007-01-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
I notice that when I run 'sudo port selfupdate', I get a message that 1.3.0, which I have installed, is the latest. Is there something else needed to migrate from darwinports to macports? Should I install the .dmg instead of using selfupdate? On Jan 7, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Kevin Walzer wr

Re: mysql start

2007-01-07 Thread eoghan
On 7 Jan 2007, at 18:55, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 09:14, eoghan wrote: Im trying to start mysql (version 5.0.27) using: $sudo /opt/local/libexec/mysqld --user=mysql Im getting the follwing error: 070107 15:11:45 [Warning] Can't create test file /opt/local/var/db/ mysql5/eoghan-j

Re: mysql start

2007-01-07 Thread eoghan
On 7 Jan 2007, at 18:55, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 09:14, eoghan wrote: Im trying to start mysql (version 5.0.27) using: $sudo /opt/local/libexec/mysqld --user=mysql Im getting the follwing error: 070107 15:11:45 [Warning] Can't create test file /opt/local/var/db/ mysql5/eoghan-

Re: Apache on Boot

2007-01-07 Thread Mark Fredrickson
(1) Can you launch httpd and/or apachectl directly/successfully? If this step is failing without any obvious errors, the problem may be server name resolution. I had this problem with apache2 from macports (last week) until I realized Apache was exiting without an error because it couldn

Re: dmg

2007-01-07 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Instead, I would be in favor of releasing a build of MacPorts that is > branded as such. MacPorts 1.3.3.dmg, or MacPorts 1.4.dmg, or whatever. > Until such a time as that is done, I have changed the wording on the > aforementione

Re: dmg

2007-01-07 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As a community service, I've posted a direct link to the latest DarwinPorts 1.3.1 universal-binary installer at my own website: http://www.codebykevin.com/portauthority.html For posterity and the mailing list archives, here's the direct link as well:

Re: dmg

2007-01-07 Thread Norman Gray
Ryan, hello. On 2007 Jan 7 , at 19.10, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I would object to renaming the older builds. That would be changing history, and would be inaccurate. I would say that old versions of a project do not magically inherit the project's new name. Oh, I didn't intend to suggest renam

Re: dmg

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 7, 2007, at 10:42, Norman Gray wrote: [following up a 6 December 2006 thread] Nathan Stocks wrote: Related to this issue, it was very non-intuitive to me that you had to click on a "Source Code" link to get to the .dmg downloads at all. It literally took me 10 minutes of poking ar

Re: mysql start

2007-01-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 7, 2007, at 09:14, eoghan wrote: Im trying to start mysql (version 5.0.27) using: $sudo /opt/local/libexec/mysqld --user=mysql Im getting the follwing error: 070107 15:11:45 [Warning] Can't create test file /opt/local/var/db/ mysql5/eoghan-js-Computer.lower-test 070107 15:11:45 [Warning]

Re: cross compiling mac ports and intel vs. PPC architecture

2007-01-07 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 7, 2007, at 12:15 AM, David Smoot wrote: Well, in an interesting twist, all my installed ports themselves work but the port command is broken. I need to fix this but it is too late tonight to tackle and I see great potential for hosing my port system. Should I just re-download port

Re: py-wxpython build problem

2007-01-07 Thread Jyrki Wahlstedt
Ok, I have upgraded py-wxpython to 2.8.0.1. It, however, means that wxWidgets depends now on wxWdigets-devel, because wxWidgets 2.8.0 has at least one file missing (wx/srchctrl.h). wxWidgets-level is from their CVS_HEAD. This had to be used, because the next wxWidgets release will be 2.8.1

Re: dmg

2007-01-07 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings, [following up a 6 December 2006 thread] Nathan Stocks wrote: Related to this issue, it was very non-intuitive to me that you had to click on a "Source Code" link to get to the .dmg downloads at all. It literally took me 10 minutes of poking around the site today to find the images

mysql start

2007-01-07 Thread eoghan
Hi Im trying to start mysql (version 5.0.27) using: $sudo /opt/local/libexec/mysqld --user=mysql Im getting the follwing error: 070107 15:11:45 [Warning] Can't create test file /opt/local/var/db/ mysql5/eoghan-js-Computer.lower-test 070107 15:11:45 [Warning] Can't create test file /opt/local/var/

Re: Apache on Boot

2007-01-07 Thread James Berry
On Jan 7, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote: o Let's see, I just did a new apache2 install the other day and ran into this o problem too. here's what worked for me: o o - The ultimate problem, which I found by trying to start apache2 o manually using "apachectl start" w

Re: Apache on Boot

2007-01-07 Thread Salvatore Domenick Desiano
o Let's see, I just did a new apache2 install the other day and ran into this o problem too. here's what worked for me: o o - The ultimate problem, which I found by trying to start apache2 o manually using "apachectl start" was that there is no httpd.conf by default. o (When you try to start

Re: XeTeX

2007-01-07 Thread Paul Guyot
Le 7 janv. 07 à 18:36, Giuseppe Di Matteo a écrit : I had already reported this problem one week ago but nobody answered. Installation of XeTeX faild because a dependency (dvipdfmx) has been updated. On the site the new version is 20061211, Portfile is 20050831. The problem was fixed yest

XeTeX

2007-01-07 Thread Giuseppe Di Matteo
I had already reported this problem one week ago but nobody answered. Installation of XeTeX faild because a dependency (dvipdfmx) has been updated. On the site the new version is 20061211, Portfile is 20050831. DEBUG: Requested variant powerpc is not provided by port dvipdfmx. DEBUG: Requeste