February 2008 - macports-dev - lists.macosforge.org

Re: MacPorts caching of distfiles [was Re: ntfs-3g 1.1120 source missing]
by Rainer Müller 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

William Siegrist wrote: > I already made the offer to portmgr a while back, so they know. I > think there needs to be some added API to macports in order to make > the engineering a little cleaner server-side, but there hasnt been > much discussion yet. So if anyone wants to take the lead on behalf of > MacPorts, I'll help/support whatever we come up with for accomplishing > the mirroring. One of these things would be how we would push files on the mirror? If we keep master_sites we could use something like `port fetch all' in a cronjob or in a post-commit hook. But that will have the problem that it currently port fetch will not remove old distfiles. So this would need improvement. Alternatively committers would have to upload there files manually which would be more work for them and also more error-prone. And I think we should move this discussion to macports-dev@. Rainer

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Warnings when I visit http://www.macports.org/ in Safari v.1.3.2
by js 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hi, when I viist http://www.macports.org/ with Safari v.1.3.2, I always see the warnings saying <warnings> This page contains the following errors: error on line 41 at column 459: Entity 'nbsp' not defined error on line 92 at column 45: Entity 'ldquo' not defined error on line 113 at column 211: Entity 'ldquo' not defined error on line 125 at column 319: Entity 'ldquo' not defined Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. </warnings> The page was itself apparently rendered well. Is this a problem no a bit old Safari? (seems safari process the document as xml?) In my opinion, if MacPorts is still supporting OS S 10.3, the main page should be ready for Safari v.1.3.2, the latest Safari for OS X 10.3. Any comments or suggestions?

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Tickets awaiting commit: 14259, 14260, 14261, 14316
by Derek Harland 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Is there any hope of someone committing these tickets? They all relate to python and are new ports or upgrades to ports that are currently nomaintainer. I don't have a commit bit or I would do it myself instead of bothering you guys! derek.

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Proposal for daily list of new tickets
by Randall Wood 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Openoffice.org publishes a daily email of new tickets to, not only its developers mailing lists, but to its blogging systems as well. Is there any reason we should not (or can not) have trac provide a daily email into the macports-dev list of new tickets? I have subscribed to the tickets list (and quickly unsubscribed once it got working) but it was way too much email to handle, but maybe a daily digest listing new tickets would help? -- Randall Wood randall.h.wood(a)alexandriasoftware.com "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy."

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#macports CIA
by Thomas Reifferscheid 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Who is maintaining the CIA bot on #macports? Can we install a summary-report for new trac tickets for some time (lets say for a week) and remove it when it's getting on our nerves... It's currently reporting svn revisions and I like to have new tickets in the form eg.: Ticket #14467: aircrack-ng 0.9.3 is out Thanks. Kind regards Thomas

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python 2.5 not playing well with others...
by Douglas Philips 24 Feb '08

24 Feb '08

this morning I did a port -d selfupdate and then port outdated which revealed new versions of a number of python 2.5 things. When I tried to update python25, this is what I got: (and this error probably prevented all the other py25-<whatever> upgrades from succeeding... --Doug ---> Fetching python25 ---> Attempting to fetch Python-2.5.2.tar.bz2 from http:// www.python.org//ftp/python/2.5.2/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for python25 ---> Extracting python25 ---> Applying patches to python25 ---> Configuring python25 ---> Building python25 with target all ---> Staging python25 into destroot ---> Deactivating python25 2.5.1_4+darwin_8 ---> Installing python25 2.5.2_0+darwin_8 ---> Activating python25 2.5.2_0+darwin_8 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ etc/select/python/python25 is being used by the active python_select port. Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation. ---> Activating python25 2.5.2_0+darwin_8 Error: Activating python25 2.5.2_0 failed: Image error: /opt/local/ etc/select/python/python25 is being used by the active python_select port. Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.

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Re: [34415] trunk/dports/aqua
by Ryan Schmidt 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

On Feb 23, 2008, at 12:59, jmr(a)macports.org wrote: > Revision: 34415 > http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/34415 > Author: jmr(a)macports.org > Date: 2008-02-23 10:59:25 -0800 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) > > Log Message: > ----------- > New port: Shiira2 > Closes #12580. [snip] > Added: trunk/dports/aqua/Shiira2/Portfile [snip] See my comments in ticket 12580, relating to the use of the "cd" and "exit" commands and some other issues.

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svn commit broken: Internal Server Error
by Thomas Reifferscheid 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Hi, g4:~/macports-trunk/dports/www/w3m thomas$ svn --username=reiffert(a)macports.org -m "* Add variant no_x11, for people who have gdk compiled with +quartz" commit svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: MKACTIVITY of '/repository/macports/!svn/act/302581ba-5f0f-40e9-be13-91eb85e90a04': 500 Internal Server Error (https://svn.macports.org) g4:~/macports-trunk/dports/www/w3m thomas$ Kind regards Thomas

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Portfile modification date checks vs. Portfile revisions
by Rainer Müller 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

Hi, currently, we enforce that every change has to increment the revision, in order to force a rebuild by the user. But in fact, the current base code also checks the last modified date of the Portfile to see if it was changed since installation. See sample with a non-existing port `empty': ---8<---snip---8<--- $ touch Portfile $ port install [...] ---> Installing empty 1_0 ---> Activating empty 1_0 ---> Cleaning empty $ port install Skipping org.macports.activate (empty ) since this port is already active ---> Cleaning empty $ touch Portfile $ port install [...] ---> Installing empty 1_0 Error: Target org.macports.install returned: Registry error: empty @1_0 already registered as installed. Please uninstall it first. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. --->8---snap--->8--- So it clearly rebuilds just because the modification date of the Portfile itself changed (it also issues a message in debug mode, but I did not want to post a whole debug log). And you will notice this first *after* compiling, which could be a long time for some ports. It already happened to me: I typed `port install' just to see a message after fetching and compiling that actually I already had that exact same port/version/revision/variant installed. So I am asking if this is still needed at all. I would rather see `port install' telling me that this port is already installed and I would have to use `port upgrade` to get a newer version. Also, currently it only works for the exact combination of port/version/revision/variants, if it differs it will install anyway. This could be extended to check if it is installed at all no matter which version or which variants are selected. And install can of course be forced with -f. I suppose this was introduced for Portfile developers, so that it always runs the target if the Portfile is newer, but that is not comfortable or users in my opinion. What do you think? How should this work? Rainer

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firefox-x11 fetch stalls
by Randall Wood 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

The fetch phase for firefox-x11 is stalling on me. Is anyone else having this issue? -- Randall Wood randall.h.wood(a)alexandriasoftware.com "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the rest is just philosophy."

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