Re: *gnu*sed?!

2007-05-18 Thread Marius Schamschula
Hi there, Your point is well taken. When I first created the Portfile, we had an online discussion about this very issue. The, then DarwinPorts, powers that be chose the gnu prefix, rather than the g prefix as in gawk (OK this is not quite fair since GNU awk is always called gawk). Off ha

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
[ Ah, I love nothing better than a lengthy rant! Here's a lengthy reply to go with it... ] On May 18, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Bill Hernandez wrote: Over time I've installed so many different versions software (mostly Apache, php, pgsql, and a myriad of dependencies) in the form of binaries &

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, Postgre

2007-05-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 18, 2007, at 17:35, Mark Duling wrote: Chris Pickel on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 1:06 PM -0800 wrote: On 18 May, 2007, at 15:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On any port, +macosx, if available, is auto-selected if you're running Mac OS X, which is everybody. Ah. Isn't it normally 'platform ma

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Bill Hernandez
I didn't write everyone individually to thank them for the time they took to provide some spectacular insights, but I am most grateful for the time you all took... I've been programming 12-15 hours a day now for months, and I think I really need a vacation, get away from all this. Actually

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, Postgre

2007-05-18 Thread markd
Chris Pickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 1:06 PM -0800 wrote: >> On any port, +macosx, if available, is auto-selected if you're >> running Mac OS X, which is everybody. > >Ah. Isn't it normally 'platform macosx'? When I look at a Portfile, I >assume variants are mine to selec

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 18, 2007, at 15:56, Mark Hattam wrote: At 14:53 -0500 18/5/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: As one of the php5 maintainers, let me clear this up. On any port, +macosx, if available, is auto-selected if you're running Mac OS X, which is everybody. It does not automatically use Apple's Apache

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Mark Hattam
At 14:53 -0500 18/5/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On May 18, 2007, at 14:37, Chris Pickel wrote: On 18 May, 2007, at 15:18, Mark Hattam wrote: That's handy to know, as I have php5 @5.2.2_0+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5 (active) on my Powerbook G4Ti ... I'd never have guessed that +macosx wasn'

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Hi Bill. I've responded to much of what you written, and snipped the rest: On May 18, 2007, at 12:57, Bill Hernandez wrote: Over time I've installed so many different versions software (mostly Apache, php, pgsql, and a myriad of dependencies) in the form of binaries & source installs on my

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Pickel
On 18 May, 2007, at 15:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On any port, +macosx, if available, is auto-selected if you're running Mac OS X, which is everybody. Ah. Isn't it normally 'platform macosx'? When I look at a Portfile, I assume variants are mine to select and platforms are handled by MacPorts

*gnu*sed?!

2007-05-18 Thread N_Ox
Hello Something has been bothering me for a moment: For consistency's sake, wouldn't be better to set --program-prefix=g in gnused? That's the program-prefix we can see in other GNU ports, e.g. {core,diff,find}utils. Anyway, i've made some modifications to this port (mainly concerning nls

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 18, 2007, at 14:37, Chris Pickel wrote: On 18 May, 2007, at 15:18, Mark Hattam wrote: That's handy to know, as I have php5 @5.2.2_0+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5 (active) on my Powerbook G4Ti ... I'd never have guessed that +macosx wasn't intended for the standard MacOSX 10.4.9 wh

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Pickel
On 18 May, 2007, at 15:18, Mark Hattam wrote: That's handy to know, as I have php5 @5.2.2_0+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5 (active) on my Powerbook G4Ti ... I'd never have guessed that +macosx wasn't intended for the standard MacOSX 10.4.9 which I have installed. Seems to work fine though

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Jeff Adams
Sounds like someone needs a hug. ;-) I feel your pain. MacPorts will remove a lot of the pain, but not all. The .profile vs. .bash_profile issue is one that SHOULD be documented in the wiki. I would document it if someone would tell me how to get write access to the wiki . I don't know why Ma

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Mark Hattam
php5 is where you're going to have the most choices, variant-wise. You definitely want +apache2 +postgresql +mysql5 but there are plenty of other variants. Mainly, the others map to configure options, so either you could guess from the names of variants (mostly descriptive enough) or you coul

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Jeff Adams
One more note on that: read the text that is output by the installs. Some of them have handy notes like "You'll need to make sure this line "..." is in file xyz." It's usually very simple stuff. --- Chris Pickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +no_startupitem would avoid installing the relevant >

Re: rdiff-backup problems after update to 1.1.9

2007-05-18 Thread Adam Mercer
On 18/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I committed the update after hearing nothing from the maintainer, but I should have updated to 1.0.5, not 1.1.x because rdiff-devel exists for 1.1.x series. Please wait a bit and do a selfupdate and I think it'll be okay. Sorry about th

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Pickel
On 18 May, 2007, at 13:57, Bill Hernandez wrote: [LENGTHY INCOHERENT RANT] ... [GENERAL QUESTIONS] Before I install (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL) I wanted to find out if there was a preferred way of doing this ? It seems like PHP should be last because of the --with APXS2 that requi

Re: rdiff-backup problems after update to 1.1.9

2007-05-18 Thread markd
Adam, I committed the update after hearing nothing from the maintainer, but I should have updated to 1.0.5, not 1.1.x because rdiff-devel exists for 1.1.x series. Please wait a bit and do a selfupdate and I think it'll be okay. Sorry about the error. Mark "Adam Mercer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on F

Re: General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:57:55PM -0500, Bill Hernandez wrote: > Perhaps if you are a home user with an iMac or a laptop you can get > by with Apache 1.3, (we're talking 4 or 5 years after Apache 2 became > available) but certainly if you are shelling out a bunch of money for > OSX Server,

Re: Call for MacPorts documentation/site effort

2007-05-18 Thread Jeff Adams
I can access my account preferences, but I can't edit the wiki or enter trac items (no links appear for either one). Basically the options are the same whether I'm logged in or not. Jeff --- Ian Eiloart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you've missed a step. I tried all that, and > the

General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

2007-05-18 Thread Bill Hernandez
[LENGTHY INCOHERENT RANT] Some observations on my OSX software upgrade/install experience. Wonder if I am alone in these thoughts or anyone else has had similar nightmares... Over time I've installed so many different versions software (mostly Apache, php, pgsql, and a myriad of dependenc

Re: /bin/date and coreutils

2007-05-18 Thread David Liontooth
N_Ox wrote: > Just a side note: as stated in sed(1) and gnused(1) manpages, > I'm pretty sure sed -E is the same as gnused -r. Thanks! Don't know how I missed that. # echo 2007-05-02 | gnused -r 's/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})/\1\/\1-\2/' 2007/2007-05 # echo 2007-05-02 | sed -E 's/([0-9]{4})

rdiff-backup problems after update to 1.1.9

2007-05-18 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi After the rdiff-backup port was bumped to 1.1.9 my backups have been failing with the following error whenever I try to clean old backups: Exception 'SingleSetGlobals instance has no attribute 'src_fsa'' raised of class 'exceptions.AttributeError': File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-package

Re: commit new port - transcode

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On May 17, 2007, at 10:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have submitted a modified Portfile using a date tag for checkout. It compiles cleanly on both PPC and x86, so I think we're in good shape. Some please review and commit [1]. Committed in r25312, thanks! -- Daniel J. Luke +===

Re: Call for MacPorts documentation/site effort

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 17 May 2007 08:28:09 -0700 Jeff Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First climb the tallest mountain in Australia and find the blind monk who lives at the top. You must perform three tasks for him, if you succeed he will whisper to you the Secret Words of Power. Find the lost city of Atlan

Re: trac ticket for http_ping, connect & mget

2007-05-18 Thread S H A N
hi any friendly commiter out there to help me out? :) kindly assist. On 5/12/07, S H A N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, thks for correction. pls find the updated files for trac submission. best regards. On 5/1/07, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 1, 2007, at 01:33, [EMAIL PR

Re: /bin/date and coreutils

2007-05-18 Thread N_Ox
Just a side note: as stated in sed(1) and gnused(1) manpages, I'm pretty sure sed -E is the same as gnused -r. N_Ox. Le 7 mai 07 à 20:52, David Liontooth a écrit : In the case of sed, I needed the -r switch and found gsed, providing gnused, in macports, which works great. Dave

Re: Icu does not build

2007-05-18 Thread N_Ox
Thanks for your feedbacks. I've opened a ticket upstream: http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/5718 Le 18 mai 07 à 08:32, Jean-Philippe Humbert a écrit : t : Rép : Icu does not build Hi, I have tried the two experiments. But the same error appears each time... Thanks for your hel