problem installing ruby/readline

2008-06-21 Thread Philip Trauring
I just installed macports and the first thing I wanted to install was the new version of ruby. I ran the install for ruby which installed several dependencies, when it got to readline I got the following message: ---> Activating readline 5.2.012_1 Error: Target org.macports.activate return

ushare startup issues

2008-06-21 Thread Gary Law
Hi I've compiled and installed ushare, but have issues trying to start it:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ /opt/local/bin/ushare -i en1 -d dlna -t -c ~ Warning: can't parse file "/opt/local/etc/ushare.conf". Interface en1 is down. Recheck uShare's configuration and try again ! uShare (version 1.1a), a lig

Re: dealing with ports that can't upgrade

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Müller
Rainer Müller wrote: > I think you could just create a local repository with the old version of > the port, overriding the version from the official tree. Another possibility: $ sudo port upgrade outdated and not metacity This prevents the upgrade of metacity while applying all other upgrades.

Re: dealing with ports that can't upgrade

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Müller
paul beard wrote: > Do we really want people ignoring available upgrades? I don't think > that's a good feature to add. > > If the upgrade doesn't install, why waste the cycles on it? And if a > port's current version is the only one that works for a given use case, > do we want to force

Re: dealing with ports that can't upgrade

2008-06-21 Thread paul beard
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 21, 2008, at 4:12 PM, paul beard wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Jun 21, 2008, at 3:19 PM, paul beard wrote: >>> >>> So I have this problem where I can't upgrade metacity u

Re: dealing with ports that can't upgrade

2008-06-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 21, 2008, at 4:12 PM, paul beard wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jun 21, 2008, at 3:19 PM, paul beard wrote: >> >>> So I have this problem where I can't upgrade metacity until I get >>> Leopard. Is there a way to have MacPorts simply ignore you don't

Re: dealing with ports that can't upgrade

2008-06-21 Thread paul beard
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2008, at 3:19 PM, paul beard wrote: > > So I have this problem where I can't upgrade metacity until I get Leopard. >> Is there a way to have MacPorts simply ignore you don't want upgraded or >> that can't be u

Re: dealing with ports that can't upgrade

2008-06-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 21, 2008, at 3:19 PM, paul beard wrote: > So I have this problem where I can't upgrade metacity until I get > Leopard. Is there a way to have MacPorts simply ignore you don't > want upgraded or that can't be upgraded? Something as simple as > a .ignore file in the port directory or a

dealing with ports that can't upgrade

2008-06-21 Thread paul beard
So I have this problem where I can't upgrade metacity until I get Leopard. Is there a way to have MacPorts simply ignore you don't want upgraded or that can't be upgraded? Something as simple as a .ignore file in the port directory or an entry in a list in ports.conf . . . In the case of metacity a