question about upgrading port (getting errors)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 4, 2007, at 17:09, Evan Burrows wrote:

>> > Yeah I tried that the other day with no luck.  Then I figured it
>> > out.  It seems as though the fact that it was retaining my previous
>> > install information when I originally installed darwinports was
>> > what was causing the issue.  After installing the new version of
>> > macports and doing a selfupdate left me with the same problem. It
>> > was late at night by the time I did that so I just wiped my
>> > macports install and all its references and did a fresh install and
>> > then just ran a quick shell script to install everything I wanted
>> > over night.  The next day when I checked everything I created the
>> > startup items for the services I wanted and rebooted and I have a
>> > fully functional macports install again.  Still a little weird why
>> > the uninstall never worked but it is working now so that is all
>> > that matters.
>>
>> What do you mean, created the startup items? MacPorts should be
>> creating all the necessary startup items (or, rather, LaunchDaemon
>> plists, on Mac OS X 10.4). For which ports did you have to manually
>> create them?
>
> Perhaps the startup daemons were created automatically?... When I  
> googled installing the mysql5 port it mentioned to manually execute  
> the startup launchdaemons.  As I said in an earlier email I am  
> relatively new and naive but none the less everything looks good now.

Well, if you "port install mysql5 +server" you get a LaunchDaemon  
plist and some instructions at the end of the install which show you  
how to activate said plist.

If you just "port install mysql5" you don't get the LaunchDaemon plist.