where does macports installs programs?

[Fabrizio Salvatore]

Many thanks for all your help!

After a complete wipe, update of all outdated ports and a complete re-install now everything works!

Thanks again!

Fab

On 10 Jul 2014, at 16:35, Ryan Ware wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> At 8:07 AM -0700 7/10/14, Ryan Ware wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Ryan Schmidt <<mailto:ryandesign at macports.org>ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Jul 10, 2014, at 5:13 AM, Fabrizio Salvatore wrote:
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>  I have wiped the root5 installation and re-installed and for what I can see the two have the exact same root5 installed.... I was going to re-install python27 too, but there are a lot of dependencies so it might be a pretty complicated business... is there a way to do the uninstall without breaking these dependencies? I am going to check if there is any difference in the python27 installation first....
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> I doubt you need to reinstall python27. In general, if a port installed, it installed successfully. Builds are supposed to be repeatable and not vary based on circumstances.
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> Are there cases where the port can be installed without success?  If so, what are those corner cases?
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> I for one am quite happy that builds are repeatable.  I've lived in environments where builds weren't necessarily repeatable and it was...problematic.
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> I think he was referring to cases such as where the post-activate step fails.  Usually, in such cases, the software is "installed" but some configuration step may not have happened.  Eg, a default configuration file might not be copied to where it ought to be
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> Cool.  Makes sense.
> 
> Ryan 
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