Fwd: Interactive applications to be installed to /Applications/MacPorts?
Oops, I meant to send this to the list--sorry Begin forwarded message:
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> Date: February 13, 2007 2:55:12 PM PST To: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> Subject: Re: Interactive applications to be installed to / Applications/MacPorts?
On Feb 13, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Feb 13, 2007, at 09:10, Christian Voelker wrote:
I found installed interactive Applications installed in different subdirectories of my /Applications folder, either MacPorts or DarwinPorts. I show AbiWord and python24 as examples here. I think, the name DarwinPorts is to be phased out, is it right?
I was under the impression that all occurrences of /Applications/ DarwinPorts were meant to have been replaced with /Applications/ MacPorts. There was a message on this list some months (?) ago that someone was going to do that. But I'm having trouble locating the exact message now. Perhaps the person who was going to do that could comment on this.
Perhaps it has been done and you just haven't upgraded that software since then? You could try syncing your ports tree and then forcing an upgrade of abiword (even if it doesn't think one is necessary) to see if it now goes into the MacPorts directory instead of the deprecated DarwinPorts directory.
How does one force the tree to sync from macports instead of darwinports?
sudo port -v sync Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done
On Feb 13, 2007, at 16:56, Bob Nielsen wrote:
How does one force the tree to sync from macports instead of darwinports?
sudo port -v sync Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done
rsync.darwinports.org is still a valid address for getting the ports for MacPorts. There's also rsync.macports.org, but it points to the same IP address, and someone on this list said months ago it's not a good idea to switch to this new name, though I don't remember why.
On Feb 13, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Feb 13, 2007, at 16:56, Bob Nielsen wrote:
How does one force the tree to sync from macports instead of darwinports?
sudo port -v sync Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done
rsync.darwinports.org is still a valid address for getting the ports for MacPorts.
There's also rsync.macports.org, but it points to the same IP address, and someone on this list said months ago it's not a good idea to switch to this new name, though I don't remember why.
OK, thanks for the explanation. I tried using 'port selfupdate' a while back and it didn't want to upgrade me to the latest so I downloaded a newer version and installed it over the old one. I was afraid that in the process I had somehow retained an obsolete link.
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