Hello- I'm a previous MacPorts user that recently switched over to Homebrew. Good success so far, but some issues that I'm hoping to resolve. For clarity, I will e-mail issues separately rather than lump them all in one e-mail. First, I have a problem with the installation of urlview. I'm getting the following (and this has been going on for a couple of days): brew install -v urlview Warning: It appears you have MacPorts or Fink installed. Software installed with other package managers causes known problems for Homebrew. If a formula fails to build, uninstall MacPorts/Fink and try again. ==> Downloading http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/u/urlview/urlview_0.9.orig.tar.gz File already downloaded in /Users/trey/Library/Caches/Homebrew /usr/bin/tar xf /Users/trey/Library/Caches/Homebrew/urlview-0.9.tar.gz ==> Downloading patches /usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew 0.8 (Ruby 1.8.7-249; Mac OS X 10.7.1) http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/u/urlview/urlview_0.9-18.1.diff.gz -o 001-homebrew.diff.gz curl: (6) Could not resolve host: mirrors.kernel.org; nodename nor servname provided, or not known Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew\ 0.8\ (Ruby\ 1.8.7-249;\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.7.1) http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/u/urlview/urlview_0.9-18.1.diff.gz -o 001-homebrew.diff.gz It appears there's a problem with host resolution, but being kernel.org I thought this would have resolved itself by now. (Also, the above states the I must still have some residual pieces of MacPorts installed, but I followed all the un-install directions, so not sure what's being picked up). Thanks for help on this. -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> wrote: > It appears there's a problem with host resolution, but being kernel.org > I thought this would have resolved itself by now. kernel.org is still down (as you can see by pointing your browser at kernel.org), though the new mirror support doesn't provided mirrors for patches, which appears to be the issue here. Jack
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:26 AM, "Jack Nagel" <jacknagel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > It appears there's a problem with host resolution, but being kernel.org > > I thought this would have resolved itself by now. > > kernel.org is still down (as you can see by pointing your browser at > kernel.org), > though the new mirror support doesn't provided mirrors for patches, > which appears > to be the issue here. > > Jack > So is there no way to install urlview with homebrew currently? -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> So is there no way to install urlview with homebrew currently?
Potentially no, though if one found a mirror for the patch, one could
substitute it
into the formula, or perhaps use a DATA patch and insert if after __END__ in the
formula file.
Jack
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:02 AM, "Jack Nagel" <jacknagel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > So is there no way to install urlview with homebrew currently? > > Potentially no, though if one found a mirror for the patch, one could > substitute it > into the formula, or perhaps use a DATA patch and insert if after __END__ > in the > formula file. > > Jack > Thanks Jack. How would I go about finding the contact information for the maintainer so I can let them know the issue? Looks like the package was updated 3 days ago according to http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/urlview.rb -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm
On Thursday, September 22, 2011, Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Thanks Jack. How would I go about finding the contact information for > the maintainer so I can let them know the issue? Homebrew doesn't have individual package maintainers. We rely on the five core maintainers and regular users to submit updates. In this case, the formula is probably dead until kernel.org comes back, unless someone submits a patch to change the urlview patch URL to a different mirror (assuming one exists). "Patches welcome," as they say. Jack
On Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:49 PM, "Jack Nagel" <jacknagel@gmail.com> wrote: On Thursday, September 22, 2011, Trey Sizemore <[1]trey@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Thanks Jack. How would I go about finding the contact information for > the maintainer so I can let them know the issue? Homebrew doesn't have individual package maintainers. We rely on the five core maintainers and regular users to submit updates. In this case, the formula is probably dead until [2]kernel.org comes back, unless someone submits a patch to change the urlview patch URL to a different mirror (assuming one exists). "Patches welcome," as they say. Jack Thanks. I found a mirror for the patches here[1], edited urlview with 'brew edit' and it installed fine. [1] http://ftp.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/u/urlview/ References 1. mailto:trey@fastmail.fm 2. http://kernel.org/ -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm