web server: macports vs. mac osx server

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Thon
Hi All - I'm setting up my research computing environment at a new university and I'm thinking of buying all apple hardware and running Mac OS X rather than linux, as I have done in the past. I have been tinkering with macports for a while on my macbook and it seems to be a great way to ma

Re: web server: macports vs. mac osx server

2007-04-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Hi Michael; welcome. On Apr 29, 2007, at 03:44, Michael Thon wrote: Hi All - I'm setting up my research computing environment at a new university and I'm thinking of buying all apple hardware and running Mac OS X rather than linux, as I have done in the past. I have been tinkering with ma

Re: web server: macports vs. mac osx server

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Thon
Hi Ryan - Thanks for your suggestions. Since I will be admin-ing my own machines I want to keep things as simple as possible. I'm planning to buy Mac Pro for my web server so I can dispense with the rack hardware, thus my need to decide whether to buy OSX Server- its an extra 500 euro t

creating new env variables in Portfiles

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Thon
Greetings - I would like my Portfile to create new directories and set system wide environment variables. Can anyone showl me the right way to do this or point me to an example? Thanks! Mike ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.m

Re: man pages

2007-04-29 Thread Алексей Муранов
After following the suggestion of Matt to modify my man.conf clear my MANPATH variable, i now can see man pages for all the ports (or so it seems so far). Thanks. Le 23 Apr 2007 à 15:39, Matt Meissner a écrit : On Apr 22, 2007, at 6:04 AM, Алексей Муранов wrote: Le 22 Apr 2007 à 00:18, Matt

Re: A patch for installing php5 -macosx +apache

2007-04-29 Thread js
Hello, Ryan. > variant macosx { >configure.args-append \ >--with-ldap=/usr \ >--with-kerberos=/usr \ >--with-iodbc=/usr > } > > I specified '-macosx' because I don't want to use osx-prpvided libs. Specifying "-macosx" is ... weird. Variant

Re: web server: macports vs. mac osx server

2007-04-29 Thread robert delius royar
Sun, 29 Apr 2007 (04:26 -0500 UTC) Ryan Schmidt wrote: The mod_perl port exists for the MacPorts version of Apache 1. % port info mod_perl mod_perl 1.29, Revision 2, www/mod_perl (Variants: universal, darwin_6) http://perl.apache.org/ {Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache 1.3 server} Libr

Postgres82 startup broken

2007-04-29 Thread William C. Brennan
I've just installed postgresql82-server (8.2.4) and discovered a problem with the instructions and startup script supplied. How do I communicate with the port maintainers? My problems are as follows: 1. At the end of the installation, the following message is displa

Re: web server: macports vs. mac osx server

2007-04-29 Thread markd
Michael Thon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 1:44 AM -0800 wrote: >I have been >looking through the macports web site for documentation on installing >these packages but I can't find any. Is any needed? It looks like >I will need to have the right set of variants to get al

Re: A patch for installing php5 -macosx +apache

2007-04-29 Thread markd
"js " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 7:50 AM -0800 wrote: >> Specifying "-macosx" is ... weird. Variants like macosx and darwin_8 >> are auto-selected by MacPorts; you should not be selecting (or, as in >> your case, unselecting) them by hand. > >Good to know. >I don't know you're

Re: creating new env variables in Portfiles

2007-04-29 Thread markd
Michael Thon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 3:23 AM -0800 wrote: >I would like my Portfile to create new directories and set system >wide environment variables. Can anyone showl me the right way to do >this or point me to an example? post-destroot { file mkdir ${destroot}$

Always recompiling same libraries.

2007-04-29 Thread Erwan David
I am doing some upgrades of the installed ports, but for each port libiconv and gperf get recompiled and reinstalled For 6 or 7 ports it makes that upgrade takes more than 1 day on my PB G4. What can I do for port to see libiconv is already the latest version and it does not need to recompile it

Re: Always recompiling same libraries.

2007-04-29 Thread Yves de Champlain
Le 07-04-29 à 16:06, Erwan David a écrit : I am doing some upgrades of the installed ports, but for each port libiconv and gperf get recompiled and reinstalled For 6 or 7 ports it makes that upgrade takes more than 1 day on my PB G4. What can I do for port to see libiconv is already the

Re: Always recompiling same libraries.

2007-04-29 Thread Erwan David
Le Sun 29/04/2007, Yves de Champlain disait > > Le 07-04-29 à 16:06, Erwan David a écrit : > > >I am doing some upgrades of the installed ports, but for each port > >libiconv > >and gperf get recompiled and reinstalled > > > >For 6 or 7 ports it makes that upgrade takes more than 1 day on my

Re: A patch for installing php5 -macosx +apache

2007-04-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 29, 2007, at 11:07, markd wrote: js on Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 7:50 AM -0800 wrote: Specifying "-macosx" is ... weird. Variants like macosx and darwin_8 are auto-selected by MacPorts; you should not be selecting (or, as in your case, unselecting) them by hand. Good to know. I don

Re: web server: macports vs. mac osx server

2007-04-29 Thread markd
robert delius royar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 7:58 AM -0800 wrote: >% port info mod_perl >mod_perl 1.29, Revision 2, www/mod_perl (Variants: universal, darwin_6) >http://perl.apache.org/ > >{Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache 1.3 server} > >Library Dependencies: perl5.8,

Problems installing denemo

2007-04-29 Thread Hubert Spall - Tamarin Design Ltd.
I am trying to install denemo, I have all the dependencies installed, but I get errors when it comes to install denemo: ---> Building denemo with target all Error: Target com.apple.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/ local/var/db/dports/build/ _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rs

PureDarwin?

2007-04-29 Thread cremes . devlist
Anyone know anything about PureDarwin [1]? I assume if it actually gets some traction that there will be MacPorts support for it. ?? [1] http://puredarwin.org/ ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforg

Re: PureDarwin?

2007-04-29 Thread Randall Wood
It looks to me like puredarwin.org is something like what opendarwin.org wanted to have: a fully functional darwin-based desktop/server OS other than Mac OS X. On 29 Apr 2007, at 20:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know anything about PureDarwin [1]? I assume if it actually gets some tr

Re: PureDarwin?

2007-04-29 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I think all we know by the evidence so far is that puredarwin.org is a web site. I've spoken to the people behind it and said I'd check back with them in a year since, by all indications, it appears to me that they are at least a year off from becoming anything substantially more than a w

Re: Problems installing denemo

2007-04-29 Thread Yves de Champlain
Should now be fixed. Thanks for the report. yves Le 07-04-29 à 20:25, Hubert Spall - Tamarin Design Ltd. a écrit : I am trying to install denemo, I have all the dependencies installed, but I get errors when it comes to install denemo: ---> Building denemo with target all Error: Target co

Re: Always recompiling same libraries.

2007-04-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 29, 2007, at 15:29, Erwan David wrote: Le Sun 29/04/2007, Yves de Champlain disait Le 07-04-29 à 16:06, Erwan David a écrit : I am doing some upgrades of the installed ports, but for each port libiconv and gperf get recompiled and reinstalled For 6 or 7 ports it makes that upgrade t

Re: Always recompiling same libraries.

2007-04-29 Thread Boey Maun Suang
Hi Erwan, Try using the -n flag (don't upgrade dependencies in upgrade). I also use -u (uninstall non-active ports when upgrading and uninstalling) to get rid of old versions, along with -f to force it to do that when the old versions have things that depend on them installed. Do note,

Re: wxWidgets/libiconv @ loggerheads?

2007-04-29 Thread Nigel King
I copied the line configure.env LDFLAGS="-L${build.dir}/libs" from /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/ rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/graphics/wxWidgets-devel/ Portfile to /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/ rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/graphics/wxWidgets/Portfile wxW

Re: Always recompiling same libraries.

2007-04-29 Thread Erwan David
Le Mon 30/04/2007, Boey Maun Suang disait > Hi Erwan, > > Try using the -n flag (don't upgrade dependencies in upgrade). I > also use -u (uninstall non-active ports when upgrading and > uninstalling) to get rid of old versions, along with -f to force it > to do that when the old versions ha