Re: Difficulty in upgrading MacPorts from El Capitan to Sierra

2017-04-04 Thread Barrie Stott
> On 4 Apr 2017, at 15:36, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Apr 4, 2017, at 02:44, Barrie Stott wrote: > >> I have some questions: >> >> 1. After loading Sierra I noticed that the m/c was slower. Looking at a file >> to display a dozen or so lines in an already open Chrome browser caused a >> pau

Re: X11 won't start

2017-04-04 Thread Langer, Stephen A. (Fed)
Hi Frank -- Yes, I logged out and back in. I had to because I couldn't stop X11 from repeatedly launching and dying otherwise! When I run "port installed xorg-libXt" now I get exactly what you have. 501>> port installed xorg-libXt The following ports are currently installed: xorg-libXt @1.1.5

Re: Difficulty in upgrading MacPorts from El Capitan to Sierra

2017-04-04 Thread Barrie Stott
> On 4 Apr 2017, at 12:02, db wrote: > > On 4 Apr 2017, at 09:44, Barrie Stott wrote: >> 2. I would like to be able to take a requested port and find the tree of >> ports that would need to be installed before this port. > > http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/26921/installed-macports-pa

Re: X11 won't start

2017-04-04 Thread mf2k
Hi Steve, > On Apr 4, 2017, at 8:27 AM, Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) > wrote: > > I just updated my computer to Sierra, and now X11 won't start. I presumed > that I had messed up the macports migration, so I just uninstalled everything > and installed only xorg-server and xterm, but I'm still g

Re: Difficulty in upgrading MacPorts from El Capitan to Sierra

2017-04-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 4, 2017, at 02:44, Barrie Stott wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I had a bit of spare time so I looked at the inability > of my iMac to put itself to sleep: something that has caused mild irritation > from time to time. Cutting a long story short it eventually involved someone > from Appl

X11 won't start

2017-04-04 Thread Langer, Stephen A. (Fed)
Hi -- I just updated my computer to Sierra, and now X11 won't start. I presumed that I had messed up the macports migration, so I just uninstalled everything and installed only xorg-server and xterm, but I'm still getting the same error. There's an "X11 quit unexpectedly" dialog, which keeps

Re: Difficulty in upgrading MacPorts from El Capitan to Sierra

2017-04-04 Thread db
On 4 Apr 2017, at 09:44, Barrie Stott wrote: > 2. I would like to be able to take a requested port and find the tree of > ports that would need to be installed before this port. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/26921/installed-macports-packages-sizes/240638#240638

Re: MP_EDITOR doesn't work

2017-04-04 Thread db
On 4 Apr 2017, at 11:18, Rainer Müller wrote: > How did you test this? This works fine for me: > $ export MP_EDITOR=less > $ port edit zlib export VISUAL=/opt/local/bin/vim works export MP_EDITOR=/opt/local/bin/vim doesn't

Re: MP_EDITOR doesn't work

2017-04-04 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2017-04-04 00:43, db wrote: > I set MP_EDITOR but it doesn't seem to work on base 2.4.1. VISUAL, second var > MP checks according to the guide, does though. How did you test this? This works fine for me: $ export MP_EDITOR=less $ port edit zlib I also added MP_EDITOR to the man page: https:/

Difficulty in upgrading MacPorts from El Capitan to Sierra

2017-04-04 Thread Barrie Stott
A couple of weeks ago I had a bit of spare time so I looked at the inability of my iMac to put itself to sleep: something that has caused mild irritation from time to time. Cutting a long story short it eventually involved someone from Apple Care being involved. He said that I did not have the l