Deleting /opt and Porticus

Jerry lanceboyle at qwest.net
Mon Jul 14 22:16:58 PDT 2008


Thanks to both responders. Deleting Porticus files in Application  
Support and Preferences did the trick but next time I'll be a bit  
more "official" about it all.
Jerry

On Jul 14, 2008, at 5:11 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> Jerry wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I just deleted /opt in the hopes of starting over fresh with  
>> better  results. (I had some problems before.) Now, however,  
>> Porticus seems  to indicate that all of the stuff is still there  
>> even though I know  it isn't. Selecting one or more items in  
>> Porticus' list and doing  Uninstall or Clean doesn't seem to  
>> result in anything happening even  though the log shows that the  
>> commands are being run.
>> Where does Porticus store its information that is causing it to  
>> not  notice that I've delete /opt? Is there a "refresh" command  
>> for Porticus?
>> Jerry
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> I'm not an expert on Porticus, but there is a "Reload Ports"  
> command in the "Ports" menu--can you try that? I think Porticus  
> uses CoreData to store its MacPorts data, and doesn't automatically  
> query MacPorts for the latest port listings. The drawback to this  
> is that it can get out of sync, as you've noticed.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Walzer
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> http://www.codebykevin.com
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