Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Now, hold on. Putting an entry into /etc/paths.d and /etc/manpaths.d > *appends* to those paths; it does not prepend. In this case, is it a problem > to just use /opt/local/bin, /opt/local/share/man, /opt/local/share/info as > you've been d

Re: texlive install dies.

2010-10-09 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:59 AM, John B Brown wrote: >        After I sent the log I attempted the command without the 'full' and > it resumed with staging python26, installed it, and gave the advice That "full" appended to texlive means nothing and gives an error on a sane system as there's no "

Re: texlive install dies.

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 9, 2010, at 23:44, John B Brown wrote: > Here's the log, below the quote. > > On 10/9/10 7:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 19:35, John B Brown wrote: >> >>> Log for python26 is at: >>> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_

Re: texlive install dies.

2010-10-09 Thread John B Brown
On 10/9/10 7:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Oct 9, 2010, at 19:35, John B Brown wrote: Log for python26 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_python26/main.log We will need to see what's in that log file before we can know w

Re: texlive install dies.

2010-10-09 Thread John B Brown
Dear Folk, Here's the log, below the quote. On 10/9/10 7:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Oct 9, 2010, at 19:35, John B Brown wrote: Log for python26 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_python26/main.log We will nee

Re: texlive install dies.

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 9, 2010, at 19:35, John B Brown wrote: > Log for python26 is at: > /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_python26/main.log We will need to see what's in that log file before we can know what went wrong. __

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Dan Ports
So, good timing on this request since we will be updating to TeXLive 2010 soon and can roll this into that change. It may also tie in nicely with something else I was considering doing with the texlive ports. Currently texlive-bin builds all the binaries for everything and installs them into $pref

texlive install dies.

2010-10-09 Thread John B Brown
Dear Folk, The error message: ---> Fetching python26 ---> Attempting to fetch Python-2.6.6.tar.bz2 from http://distfiles.macports.org/python26 ---> Verifying checksum(s) for python26 ---> Extracting python26 ---> Applying patches to python26 ---> Configuring python26 ---> Buildi

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Faisal Moledina
>>> .Ah. Then /usr/texbin is not the bin directory, it's the prefix. So >>> you'd really have /usr/texbin/bin being a symlink to wherever the TeX >>> binaries are, and /usr/texbin/man (or perhaps more correctly >>> /usr/texbin/share/man) for the manpages, /usr/texbin/info (or perhaps >>> /u

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 9, 2010, at 18:54, Faisal Moledina wrote: >>> Man files are ultimately located at /usr/texbin/man. >> >> .Ah. Then /usr/texbin is not the bin directory, it's the prefix. So >> you'd really have /usr/texbin/bin being a symlink to wherever the TeX >> binaries are, and /usr/texbin/man

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Faisal Moledina
>> Man files are ultimately located at /usr/texbin/man. > > .Ah. Then /usr/texbin is not the bin directory, it's the prefix. So you'd > really have /usr/texbin/bin being a symlink to wherever the TeX binaries are, > and /usr/texbin/man (or perhaps more correctly /usr/texbin/share/man) for the

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 9, 2010, at 18:24, Faisal Moledina wrote: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 16:13, Faisal Moledina wrote: >> >>> It would work much better if the link was >>> /usr/texbin -> /opt/local/libexec/texlive/texbin as you suggest, Ryan. >>> It would

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Faisal Moledina
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2010, at 16:13, Faisal Moledina wrote: > >> It would work much better if the link was >> /usr/texbin -> /opt/local/libexec/texlive/texbin as you suggest, Ryan. >> It would certainly be most efficient if it were done at the port >> i

Re: port selfupdate failling

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 9, 2010, at 16:00, Uli Wienands wrote: > I have been trying to update my MacPorts installation by running "sudo port > -d selfupdate". It fails with the following message: > > . > . > . > ===> making install in doc > /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local > /usr/bin/inst

Re: port selfupdate failling

2010-10-09 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-09 23:02 , Uli Wienands wrote: > ===> making install in doc > /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local > /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local/etc/macports > cat prefix.mtree | /usr/sbin/mtree -U -e -p /opt/local > /dev/null > mtree: line 6: unknown group

Re: Remove PPC macports from Intel Mac

2010-10-09 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-09 22:12 , James Berry wrote: > You can just substitute the pseudo-port "requested" for installed above. Do > get a list of the requested ports: > > port echo requested > > To upgrade only requested ports: > > port -f upgrade requested > > Hope that helps. Note that thi

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 9, 2010, at 16:13, Faisal Moledina wrote: > It would work much better if the link was > /usr/texbin -> /opt/local/libexec/texlive/texbin as you suggest, Ryan. > It would certainly be most efficient if it were done at the port > install level so I'll go ahead and request a modification. I r

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Faisal Moledina
>> Note that doing this doesn't alter anything in /opt/local. It just >> sets up links in /usr/texbin to the appropriate location. The main >> disadvantage that I see is that because MacPorts installs TeXLive >> binaries in /opt/local/bin, when this TeX distribution is selected, >> /usr/texbin woul

port selfupdate failling

2010-10-09 Thread Uli Wienands
Aargh, I forgot to mention: This is on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger,. PPC G4 system. Trying to update to MacPorts 1.9.1. Dear all, I have been trying to update my MacPorts installation by running "sudo port -d selfupdate". It fails with the following message: . . . ===> making install in doc /us

port selfupdate failling

2010-10-09 Thread Uli Wienands
Dear all, I have been trying to update my MacPorts installation by running "sudo port -d selfupdate". It fails with the following message: . . . ===> making install in doc /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local /usr/bin/install -c -d -o root -g 501 -m 755 /opt/local/etc/macpo

Re: new port thrift

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:01, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > I'm working on a portfile for thrift. > > http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ > > At the end of configure I see this: > > Building C++ Library . : yes > Building Java Library : yes > Building C# Library .. : no > Bui

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 8, 2010, at 13:53, Faisal Moledina wrote: > Note that doing this doesn't alter anything in /opt/local. It just > sets up links in /usr/texbin to the appropriate location. The main > disadvantage that I see is that because MacPorts installs TeXLive > binaries in /opt/local/bin, when this Te

Re: Remove PPC macports from Intel Mac

2010-10-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 8, 2010, at 12:38, Mark Johnson wrote: > Recently my old PPC PowerBook was replaced by a new Intel MacBook. Our IY > department copied everything from the old machine to the new one. > > Now I find that none of the ports work and they are interfering with > installation of new software.

Re: Remove PPC macports from Intel Mac

2010-10-09 Thread James Berry
Bradley, On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark Johnson wrote: >>> How can I get rid of the old MacPorts or replace it with one compatible >>> with my new machine? >>> I can't run

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Faisal Moledina
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Faisal Moledina > wrote: >>The main >> disadvantage that I see is that because MacPorts installs TeXLive >> binaries in /opt/local/bin, when this TeX distribution is selected, >> /usr/texbin would link to /opt

Re: Remove PPC macports from Intel Mac

2010-10-09 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark Johnson wrote: How can I get rid of the old MacPorts or replace it with one compatible with my new machine? I can't run sudo port -f uninstall installed because the port command does not work. You ca

Re: creating MacTeX links to MacPorts TeXLive

2010-10-09 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Faisal Moledina wrote: > I > decided to help update the postflight script to link to MacPorts > TeXLive ports, called MacPorts-TeXLive. I've pasted the relevant > portion of the postflight script at http://pastie.org/1208204 and I > was wondering if other MacTeX use

Re: Remove PPC macports from Intel Mac

2010-10-09 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark Johnson wrote: > How can I get rid of the old MacPorts or replace it with one compatible with > my new machine? > I can't run sudo port -f uninstall installed because the port command does > not work. You can install macports from latest dmg and get a list o

new port thrift

2010-10-09 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
I'm working on a portfile for thrift. http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ At the end of configure I see this: Building C++ Library . : yes Building Java Library : yes Building C# Library .. : no Building Python Library .. : yes Building Ruby Library : yes B

Re: Mailman/Postfix and the dreaded group mismatch

2010-10-09 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Oct 9, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > > On 10/09/2010 01:55 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: >>> 'port sync' or 'port selfupdate' overwrites any local changes. You >>> should use a local ports tree [1] to avoid that. >> >> Would changi

Re: Mailman/Postfix and the dreaded group mismatch

2010-10-09 Thread Rainer Müller
On 10/09/2010 01:55 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: >> 'port sync' or 'port selfupdate' overwrites any local changes. You >> should use a local ports tree [1] to avoid that. > > Would changing from rsync to svn also be a good choice? It depends. A

Re: Mailman/Postfix and the dreaded group mismatch

2010-10-09 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: On 2010-10-08 20:24 , Bill Christensen wrote: I went back to double check my changes in the Mailman portfile and they weren't there. After entering them again - and removing the original "--with-mail-gid=${mmgroup}" which I had missed last

Re: Mailman/Postfix and the dreaded group mismatch

2010-10-09 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2010-10-08 20:24 , Bill Christensen wrote: > I went back to double check my changes in the Mailman portfile and they > weren't there. After entering them again - and removing the original > "--with-mail-gid=${mmgroup}" which I had missed last time - everything > appears to be working correctl