Re: Migration doc suggestion - chsh

2020-11-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 27, 2020, at 15:50, Kevin Horton wrote: > I'm apparently a slow learner, but once again I forgot to change my login > shell back to one supplied by Apple before migrating to Big Sur (I had been > using. > > Suggestion - add a step to the Migration docs, before the step that removes

Re: Port Application Issues (Launching Issues)

2020-11-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 27, 2020, at 18:25, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > However, only native Cocoa apps wil install an .app bundle inside the > MacPorts folder. E.g. emacs, gimp do that if they are compiled in the > "+quartz" variant. Other apps if not Mac native will have their own launch > method which will

Re: MacPorts on Apple Silicon Macs (was: Re: info)

2020-11-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 27, 2020, at 09:15, Giovanni Cantele wrote: > is there any ongoing project for porting the whole macports staff on the new > Apple silicon architecture? > What happens to those who extensively make use of macports and have bought > the recent released MacBook Pro running on the new

Re: Port Application Issues (Launching Issues)

2020-11-27 Thread Uli Wienands
In general, you can launch an app from the terminal using open (e.g. open /Applications/TextEdit.app). Application bundles often have the actual app somewhere inside the Contents/MacOS folder that you can open in terminal by just executing it (e.g.

Re: Port Application Issues (Launching Issues)

2020-11-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, Jonathan Allen via macports-users wrote: The problem is, I can’t find the application icon at all and even searched the MacPorts help pages to see if there was a “launch this application” command and didn’t see one. I am a first time MacPorts user. How do I fix this so I can launch the

Re: MacPorts 2.6.4 has been released

2020-11-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi! Joshua Root wrote: The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.6.4. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog [1] for the list of changes. thank you Joshua! Just updated on 10.7 and 10.5

Migration doc suggestion - chsh

2020-11-27 Thread Kevin Horton
I'm apparently a slow learner, but once again I forgot to change my login shell back to one supplied by Apple before migrating to Big Sur (I had been using. Suggestion - add a step to the Migration docs, before the step that removes all ports. If the user is using a default shell provided by

Re: info

2020-11-27 Thread Artem Loenko via macports-users
Hello, I am in the same boat (and have switched from HomeBrew to MacPorts a few weeks ago, so, maybe I am wrong). MacPorts as a tool works just fine on Macs with Apple Silicon, but many ports are “broken” and have to be fixed. Most of them just do not compile for `arm64`, and it is not

Re: info

2020-11-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:27 AM Giovanni Cantele wrote: > > Dear All,. > > I’m searching the web but I cannot find any response to the following > question: > > is there any ongoing project for porting the whole macports staff on the new > Apple silicon architecture? > What happens to those

info

2020-11-27 Thread Giovanni Cantele
Dear All,. I’m searching the web but I cannot find any response to the following question: is there any ongoing project for porting the whole macports staff on the new Apple silicon architecture? What happens to those who extensively make use of macports and have bought the recent released