<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 4:11 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:list_email@icloud.com" target="_blank">list_email@icloud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I recently did a fresh installation of MacPorts. I then installed octave-devel because the version given for it is 4.1.0+, more recent than that for octave the version of which is given as 4.0.3_1.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>-devel ports are for testing; there is no guarantee of compatibility with dependents of the stable port version. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">(1) Can I do a "sudo port clean --dist octave" to get rid of any junk that was installed by the aborted octave installation?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>--dist removes the source distribution. Other components may be left behind. Perhaps you want --all, or at least --work --dist --archive.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
(2) Can I install octave packages such as octave-signal into octave-devel? If so, how? Does this involve using octave_select?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>select ports change what shows up on the user's $PATH. They should not affect installation or maintenance via the port command, and a port which relied on port select to determine what or where to install would be considered buggy because it defeats using port select to let the user switch between different, possibly incompatible, versions of a package. <br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
(3) If I need to revert to octave 4.0.3_1, how do I remove _all_ of octave-devel. In the past I have found that uninstalling ports doesn’t return my disk usage to what it was before installing, usually by several GB. I want to keep a lean and clean MacPorts installation.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Uninstall will leave distfiles and downloaded archives behind; this is a use case for `port clean --dist` (possibly also with --archive) that you mentioned above. If you are regularly seeing additional space usage after removing installed files and distfiles, make sure you have not configured macports.conf to retain work directories or build log files (either of which you might change in order to debug buggy ports).</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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