[mosh-devel] Installing using MacPorts in Mountain Lion

[Quentin Smith]

MacPorts does not support distro upgrades, period. The official MacPorts 
instructions tell you to uninstall and reinstall it. (And they walk you 
through reinstalling the same packages.)

So given that, I don't understand how it could be upgrading dependencies.

--Quentin

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Bill Magnuson wrote:

> It's a MacPorts issue. The problems start when MacPorts tries to upgrade dependencies for the new Darwin version. It gets itself in a hell of a mess after that.
> I can't re-test in Homebrew or from source now as I'm back on Lion. Mountain Lion was causing all kinds of issues for me and it was on my work machine, so I had to revert.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:03 PM, seph <seph at mit.edu> wrote:
>       Is this a macports issue or a mosh issue? Does building from source or
>       homebrew have the same problem?
>
>       seph
> 
> Bill Magnuson <billmag at alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > Mountain Lion and MacPorts are not working very well together right now.
> > Installing anything with MacPorts causes lots of important things to break.
> > I didn't find this out until I tried to install Mosh yesterday.
> >
> > Anyway, I was having enough trouble with Mountain Lion that I downgraded to
> > Lion, so I'm all fixed up now, but you might want to indicate that it is
> > only supported from 10.5-10.7.
> >
> > -Bill
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