Re: [PATCH] Inheritance of macports.conf configuration files

Adam,

Thanks for the patch. This looks good to me. Does anybody have a use  
case where inheritance is not the right thing here?

James

On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Adam Byrtek wrote:

> There had been no response to my previous post (quoted below), so I
> decided to try again. Could one of the MacPorts maintainers take a
> look at the patch, please? This is actually quite a trivial change
> that will make the user configuration much more convenient.
>
> Best regards
> Adam Byrtek
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Adam Byrtek <adambyrtek@...>  
> wrote:
>> I've made a tweak in handling of macports.conf configuration file,  
>> now
>> the global file defines defaults and user configuration can just
>> override parts of it. More information can be found in this thread on
>> macports-users:
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-August/011273.html
>>
>> The actual patch is available here:
>> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16329
>>

Re: [PATCH] Inheritance of macports.conf configuration files

Adam Byrtek wrote:
> There had been no response to my previous post (quoted below), so I
> decided to try again. Could one of the MacPorts maintainers take a
> look at the patch, please? This is actually quite a trivial change
> that will make the user configuration much more convenient.

Sometimes macports-dev is not so responsive and everybody seems busy.
Good that you sent out the reminder, I just forgot about this patch already.

+1 on applying the patch.

Rainer

Re: Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

I think one way of organizing what you want would be
to put up a foundation. Then you have clear separation
of responsibilities. Finance and other assets governed by
a separate legal body, and the software project, which
means simply interested individuals. And the latter would still
be the cause of this new legal body, advising, organizing
support and whatever more in the background, and more
longterm. The term Elders sounds a bit weird to me, to be honest.

OTOH, my biggest concern is to get regular releases, anyway.
And if this new construct allows for that, and still is open
to incremental improvement, than I'm +1, too.

Florian

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:18 PM, James Berry <jberry@...> wrote:
> As many of you know, MacPorts is loosely governed by the "PortMgr"
> team, which is currently made up of three people: Markus Weissmann,
> Juan Manual Palacios, and James Berry.
>
> We each love MacPorts, and hope to see it continue to prosper and grow
> in the future. And we want to continue to contribute to the success of
> MacPorts as our time and professional lives allow in the future.
>
> But we each also have other significant professional and personal
> commitments that have made it difficult for us to put what we feel is
> an appropriate amount of time, energy, and enthusiasm into MacPorts in
> recent months and years, to the extent that we feel that additional
> day-to-day leadership is needed to ensure continued success and growth
> for the MacPorts project.

Adding finance and gis as primary categories

Are there any objections to me adding "finance" as a primary category  
- i.e. a new directory under dports? In particular I'm thinking of it  
for the proposed new port for ledger [1].

Also, a "gis" primary category would be good for MapServer [2], GRASS  
(should that ever happen) and probably a few more.

[1] <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16684>
[2] <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16238>

Cheers!
Frank

Re: Adding finance and gis as primary categories

Frank Schima wrote:
> Are there any objections to me adding "finance" as a primary category  
> - i.e. a new directory under dports? In particular I'm thinking of it  
> for the proposed new port for ledger [1].
> 
> Also, a "gis" primary category would be good for MapServer [2], GRASS  
> (should that ever happen) and probably a few more.

No objections. "finance" also sounds reasonable for other ports like
gnucash.

Please remember to append new primary categories to the list of valid
categories in port1.0/portlint.tcl.

Rainer

Re: Adding finance and gis as primary categories

On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Frank Schima wrote:
>> Are there any objections to me adding "finance" as a primary category
>> - i.e. a new directory under dports? In particular I'm thinking of it
>> for the proposed new port for ledger [1].
>>
>> Also, a "gis" primary category would be good for MapServer [2], GRASS
>> (should that ever happen) and probably a few more.
>
> No objections. "finance" also sounds reasonable for other ports like
> gnucash.
>
> Please remember to append new primary categories to the list of valid
> categories in port1.0/portlint.tcl.
>

BTW, in general if you change portlint.tcl, you need to email me with  
the rev number(s) so I can make sure the server that does the  
autolinting has the latest changes.

On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Frank Schima wrote:
>> Are there any objections to me adding "finance" as a primary category
>> - i.e. a new directory under dports? In particular I'm thinking of it
>> for the proposed new port for ledger [1].

Re: [MacPorts] #16723: unify the python portgroups

For those that don't watch -tickets:

MacPorts wrote:
> #16723: unify the python portgroups
> ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  jmr@...  |       Owner:  macports-tickets@...
>      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new                                  
>  Priority:  Normal            |   Milestone:  MacPorts base enhancements           
> Component:  base              |     Version:  1.7.0                                
>  Keywords:                    |        Port:                                       
> ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>  The current practice of having separate ports of modules for each python
>  version is awkward, and will get far worse now that python 2.6 and 3.0 are
>  being released. Here is a portgroup that should be able to replace the
>  current python25 and python24 groups, and can install for any combination
>  of the available python versions at once via variants.

Please test and suggest improvements. One I can think of off the top of
my head is the ability to suppress the variants for unsupported python
versions.

- Josh

Fwd: [MacPorts] #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)

I posted a patch for this bug Sep. 16, and the maintainer did
not react. I know there was this maintainer timeout rule, but I
also remember that there was discussion about abandoning it.
Can I apply this change now?

Florian

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MacPorts <noreply@...>
Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Subject: [MacPorts] #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)
To: febeling@..., sal@...
Cc: macports-tickets@...

#16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)
-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
 Reporter:  febeling@...  |       Owner:  sal@...
    Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:  Port Bugs
Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.6.0
 Keywords:                         |        Port:  p5-mac-carbon
-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
 The cause is a dependency "port:p5-test-simple".

 p5-test-simple overwrites files of the perl5.8 installation, and this
 causes  the failure, if -f is not present. (test-simple depends
 on p5-test-harness, and that has the same problem as test-simple).

 It seems that p5-mac-carbon does not really need the port p5-test-simple,
 so it should be removed as a dependency. There were other ports which

Re: Adding finance and gis as primary categories

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue <at> macports.org> wrote:
> Frank Schima wrote:
>> Are there any objections to me adding "finance" as a primary category
>> - i.e. a new directory under dports? In particular I'm thinking of it
>> for the proposed new port for ledger [1].
>>
>> Also, a "gis" primary category would be good for MapServer [2], GRASS
>> (should that ever happen) and probably a few more.
>
> No objections. "finance" also sounds reasonable for other ports like
> gnucash.
>
> Please remember to append new primary categories to the list of valid
> categories in port1.0/portlint.tcl.

Now I understand why I was getting warnings about erlang ports.
I thought that was due to release lag. I just added it.

 <at> Bill: portlint.tcl <at> 40445 contains the erlang category, but you probably
want finance and gis in as well before you update the running lint, I guess.

Florian

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Re: [MacPorts] #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)

On Oct 2, 2008, at 2:58 AM, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:

> I posted a patch for this bug Sep. 16, and the maintainer did
> not react. I know there was this maintainer timeout rule, but I
> also remember that there was discussion about abandoning it.
> Can I apply this change now?

I think the discussion was about changing the maintainer timeout, not  
abandoning it, but I don't think it got anywhere. It's still  
documented in the Guide that if a maintainer does not respond to a  
ticket in 72 hours, anybody else can take it, and I recommend still  
following that rule.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: MacPorts <noreply@...>
> Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM
> Subject: [MacPorts] #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without  
> forcing (-f)
> To: febeling@..., sal@...
> Cc: macports-tickets@...
>
>
> #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f)
> ----------------------------------- 
> +----------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  febeling@...  |       Owner:   
> sal@...
>     Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new
>  Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:  Port Bugs