Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread Paulo Moura
On 2007/05/10, at 05:58, Boey Maun Suang wrote: You wouldn't happen to be running MacPorts from ToT (a.k.a. trunk), rather than a release version? Nope, I'm running the latest stable one (1.440). James Berry has committed some changes recently that removes '+' from the list of acceptable

Re: python24 upgrade fails?

2007-05-09 Thread paul beard
On May 9, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Jann Röder wrote: No, not at all. Which version of Mac OS X are you using ? Does it work if you uninstall the python port first (with the -f flag) and then try to install the new version ? I'm still scratching my head over the python.exe. What's that doing? and w

Re: Firefox 2.0?

2007-05-09 Thread Boey Maun Suang
Hi Christian, Am I missing how to build a more recent version of Firefox via MacPorts? I built firefox-x11 and that only gave me 1.5. I don't think you're missing anything; it looks like 1.5.0.1 is the only version of FireFox currently in our ports tree. If you're not up to trying to cre

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread Boey Maun Suang
Hi, On 10/05/2007, at 08:22, Paulo Moura wrote: The problem seems to be that MacPorts is not properly escaping version strings. The "3.0.1+" version comes from the software that the Portfile gets from CVS. This leads me to use the same version name on the portfile, otherwise the symbolic l

Re: Postfix warnings when starting (harmless?)

2007-05-09 Thread Tabitha McNerney
On 5/9/07, Sbranzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 09/05/07 01:27, Tabitha McNerney wrote: > # postfix start > > /opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 200: ls: command not found > postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: > /opt/local/libexec/postfix <...> > The warnings abou

Re: python24 upgrade fails?

2007-05-09 Thread paul beard
On May 9, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Jann Röder wrote: No, not at all. Which version of Mac OS X are you using ? Does it work if you uninstall the python port first (with the -f flag) and then try to install the new version ? Darwin white.paulbeard.org 8.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.0: Thu Feb 22 2

Re: python24 upgrade fails?

2007-05-09 Thread Jann Röder
No, not at all. Which version of Mac OS X are you using ? Does it work if you uninstall the python port first (with the -f flag) and then try to install the new version ? Jann paul beard wrote: > > On May 9, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Weissmann Markus wrote: > >> we already received this error report fr

mediawiki

2007-05-09 Thread George A. Dowding
I would like to install mediawiki using postgresql rather than mysql. At one time there was some useful documentation on creating a local port tree as well as guidance on writing a portfile. It seems that the site http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ that had the documentation is no longer i

Re: documentation on testing a new port?

2007-05-09 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 9, 2007, at 9:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried shoving the new Portfile into /opt/local/var/db/dports/ sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports/multimedia (where it should eventually go) but the port command doesn't pick it up. Is there an index I need to muck with?

documentation on testing a new port?

2007-05-09 Thread cremes . devlist
I'm working on creating a new Portfile but I can't find any documentation on how to test it. My previous forays into macports were all modifications to pre-existing ports. All the docs are pointing at the old darwinports.opendarwin.org which no longer exists. Plus, in the wiki the link to t

Re: python24 upgrade fails?

2007-05-09 Thread paul beard
On May 9, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Weissmann Markus wrote: we already received this error report from another user, but not with the hint about the actual version of the python interpreter in $worksrcpath; neither Jann nor Elias nor I did encounter this particular error and we have been unable to

Re: How to downgrade to a previous version of libxslt?

2007-05-09 Thread Lyle Johnson
On 5/9/07, Lyle Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to downgrade my libxslt installation from 1.1.20 (the current version) to 1.1.15. I've deactivated 1.1.20, but when I try to install 1.1.15: Never mind, I found a workaround for the problem. _

Re: python24 upgrade fails?

2007-05-09 Thread Weissmann Markus
Hi Paul, we already received this error report from another user, but not with the hint about the actual version of the python interpreter in $worksrcpath; neither Jann nor Elias nor I did encounter this particular error and we have been unable to reproduce it so far. We're investigating;

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread Paulo Moura
On 2007/05/09, at 22:57, James Berry wrote: Actually, try doing this: sudo port -p uninstall xsb @3.0.1+_0/ (add a slash to the end of the version number). This disambiguates the version from any variants for the port. I'm not sure it'll work, since I'm still not sure I know where

Re: installing old versions of port (was: grace upgrade problem)

2007-05-09 Thread Bakki Kudva
Ofcourse this may wreak havoc with dependencies :) -bakki On 5/9/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ho can I install an old version of a port? MacPorts does not provide a built-in way to do that. If you want to do that, you can locate an older version of the portfile by browsing th

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread James Berry
On May 9, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Paulo Moura wrote: pmmbp:~/Documents/Prolog/xsbcvs pmoura$ sudo port -f install ---> Fetching xsb ---> Verifying checksum(s) for xsb ---> Extracting xsb ---> Configuring xsb ---> Building xsb with target all ---

How to downgrade to a previous version of libxslt?

2007-05-09 Thread Lyle Johnson
Apologies if this is a FAQ. I'd like to downgrade my libxslt installation from 1.1.20 (the current version) to 1.1.15. I've deactivated 1.1.20, but when I try to install 1.1.15: sudo port install [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can see that it's trying to fetch libxslt-1.1.20.tar.gz from the source web

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread Paulo Moura
On 2007/05/09, at 21:13, Daniel J. Luke wrote: The + in the versions is likely confusing port. If that is really the case, then I would say that I tripped on a MacPorts bug (I'm using the latest version, ). You could try escaping it with a \ Tried it without success: pmmbp:~/Documents

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 9, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Paulo Moura wrote: pmmbp:~/Documents/Prolog/xsbcvs pmoura$ sudo port -f install ---> Fetching xsb ---> Verifying checksum(s) for xsb ---> Extracting xsb ---> Configuring xsb ---> Building xsb with target all ---> Staging xsb into destroot ---> Packaging tgz arch

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread Paulo Moura
On 2007/05/09, at 20:29, paul beard wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Paulo Moura wrote: There is no "revision" variable in the portfile. Any ideas? Thanks, This man page seems to contradict itself, but perhaps it's not optional, as mentioned below. ... revision Local rev

Re: port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread paul beard
On May 9, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Paulo Moura wrote: There is no "revision" variable in the portfile. Any ideas? Thanks, This man page seems to contradict itself, but perhaps it's not optional, as mentioned below. MAIN VARIABLES All ports are required to set certain variables. name

port activate error: can't read "revision": no such variable

2007-05-09 Thread Paulo Moura
Hi! I'm writing a portfile for XSB, a logic programming language. When doing a port activate, I get the following error: DEBUG: Executing com.apple.activate (xsb) ---> Activating xsb 3.0.1+_0 Error: Target com.apple.activate returned: can't read "revision": no such variable Warning: the f

python24 upgrade fails?

2007-05-09 Thread paul beard
running install_scripts copying build/scripts-2.4/idle -> //opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp orts_lang_python24/work/destroot/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.4/bin copying build/scripts-2.4/pydoc ->

Re: installing old versions of port (was: grace upgrade problem)

2007-05-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 9, 2007, at 04:10, Jochen Küpper wrote: On 09.05.2007, at 02:27, Boey Maun Suang wrote: As for the failure to upgrade grace here, I'm guessing that the reason was that, at the time you ran "port upgrade outdated", you had the two versions of grace already installed and port thought

Re: Postfix warnings when starting (harmless?)

2007-05-09 Thread Sbranzo
On 09/05/07 01:27, Tabitha McNerney wrote: > # postfix start > > /opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 200: ls: command not found > postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: > /opt/local/libexec/postfix <...> > The warnings about the command "ls" not being found in the postfi

Unable to build physfs

2007-05-09 Thread Jeff Adams
Well my reinstall to get rid of readline problems seems not to have worked. I get the following error when trying to "port install physfs": ---> Fetching physfs ---> Attempting to fetch physfs-1.0.0.tar.gz from http://icculus.org/physfs/downloads/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for physfs ---> Ex

Re: Postfix warnings when starting (harmless?)

2007-05-09 Thread markd
There is a ticket on that. It wouldn't be hard to fix, but I'm not sure what the effect is either (no clear explanation from reporter) and I wonder if a fix upstream may happen at some point because I would think this wouldn't be a problem on OS X only. But it has persisted since 2.2 I think. ht

Re: Install package from local file

2007-05-09 Thread Marcus Karlsson
I don't think that was the problem because the file was downloaded but the download interrupted before it completed. Marcus On 9 maj 2007, at 13.17, Jeff Adams wrote: I had a similar problem, in my case it was a firewall issue. I'm not sure exactly what port does, but it appears to use FTP

Re: Port version 1.440?

2007-05-09 Thread James Berry
On May 9, 2007, at 4:35 AM, Jeff Adams wrote: I'm pretty sure that a week ago or whenever it was I first installed MacPorts, I used the DMG and got version 1.4.0 which then updated to 1.4.4 on the first "port selfupdate". This time when I ran port selfupdate I got: DarwinPorts base version 1.

Samba: libsmbclient and ruby/smb

2007-05-09 Thread Glen de Vries
I've been trying to get ruby/smb to compile against the Samba3 3.0.20b_darwin8 package, but to no avail. Although the header file is found, the smbclient library doesn't pass have_library("smbclient", "smbc_init") and the Makefile is never generated. Was wondering if anyone has successfully

Port version 1.440?

2007-05-09 Thread Jeff Adams
I'm pretty sure that a week ago or whenever it was I first installed MacPorts, I used the DMG and got version 1.4.0 which then updated to 1.4.4 on the first "port selfupdate". This time when I ran port selfupdate I got: DarwinPorts base version 1.440 installed Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.4

Postfix warnings when starting (harmless?)

2007-05-09 Thread Tabitha McNerney
Hello, I just installed the most current version of the Postfix port (2.3.8) under MacPorts 1.4.0 and 1.4.3 with the ldap, pcre, sasl and tls variants: $ port installed postfix The following ports are currently installed: postfix @2.3.8_0+ldap+pcre+sasl+tls (active) on two different machin

Firefox 2.0?

2007-05-09 Thread Christian Bonanno
Am I missing how to build a more recent version of Firefox via MacPorts? I built firefox-x11 and that only gave me 1.5. Enjoy the day, Christian ~ http://web.mac.com/christianbonanno/ http://web.mac.com/christianbonanno/iWeb/Sangha/Dharma%20Blog/Dharma% 20Blog.html _

Re: Install package from local file

2007-05-09 Thread Jeff Adams
I had a similar problem, in my case it was a firewall issue. I'm not sure exactly what port does, but it appears to use FTP rather than HTTP downloads? And the browser will do HTTP downloads. FTP in passive mode will connect to some random port (it's like 1000-2000 or something) on the server, w

installing old versions of port (was: grace upgrade problem)

2007-05-09 Thread Jochen Küpper
On 09.05.2007, at 02:27, Boey Maun Suang wrote: As for the failure to upgrade grace here, I'm guessing that the reason was that, at the time you ran "port upgrade outdated", you had the two versions of grace already installed and port thought it only had to activate the newer one (which fai

Does gpg-agent now work with mutt? (Can ticket #3730 be closed?)

2007-05-09 Thread Boey Maun Suang
Hi all, I just want to hear from users of mutt and gpg-agent as to whether or not there are still problems with using the two together; ticket #3730's patches are now outdated [1], there haven't been any substantial additions to it for over a year, gpg-agent is now up-to- date and the firs