uninstalling a selected port ...

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Danecek
Hi all, I observe a behaviour, which I believe is due to the fact that I uninstalled an selected port (see below). This seems to leave the selection mechanism in an undesired state and should be handled. Now I wonder which is the expected behaviour, so that I can eventually file a ticket

Re: uninstalling a selected port ...

2014-02-28 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.comwrote: sudo port -f select --set postgresql postgresql93 In my opinion, such protection is a Good Thing (TM). There's a way to work around it if you know the reason behind the file collision, but I certainly wouldn't want a

Re: uninstalling a selected port ...

2014-02-28 Thread Jason Swails
On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 14:53 +0100, Peter Danecek wrote: On 28 Feb 2014, at 14:44, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 14:33 +0100, Peter Danecek wrote: Hi all, I observe a behaviour, which I believe is due to the fact that I uninstalled an selected port

Re: uninstalling a selected port ...

2014-02-28 Thread Jason Swails
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Peter Danecek peter.dane...@bo.ingv.itwrote: On 28 Feb 2014, at 15:17, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: An alternative when you know that you are uninstalling a port is to select none. So something like sudo port select --set postgresql none

Re: uninstalling a selected port ...

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Danecek
[Sorry, I realise I send my replies off-list] On 28 Feb 2014, at 15:38, Clemens Lang c...@macports.org wrote: Hi, I believe it is consistent. As I understand it, the simlinks created by port select are not *owned* by the selected port. Since the port itself does not maintain these

Re: uninstalling a selected port ...

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Danecek
[Sorry, I realise I send my replies off-list] On 28 Feb 2014, at 15:17, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: An alternative when you know that you are uninstalling a port is to select none. So something like sudo port select --set postgresql none to get rid of the simlinks, then

Re: uninstalling a selected port ...

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Danecek
[Sorry, I realise I send my replies off-list] On 28 Feb 2014, at 14:44, Jason Swails jason.swa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 14:33 +0100, Peter Danecek wrote: Hi all, I observe a behaviour, which I believe is due to the fact that I uninstalled an selected port (see below).