Migration issue

Thu Jan 12 21:08:58 CET 2017

But, if there are actually any ports that I have where +universal is the default, and is necessary, that would break them, and their chain of dependancies.  I don’t know if there are any like that, or how I can tell, except by manually reviewing info for each one.  Is there any other way?

--Adam

> On Jan 12, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Russell Jones <russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On 11/01/17 18:04, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
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>>> On Jan 11, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Russell Jones < <mailto:russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk>russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk <mailto:russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
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>>> On 06/01/17 17:37, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
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>>>>> On Jan 6, 2017, at 9:49 AM, Russell Jones <russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk <mailto:russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
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>>>>> On 06/01/17 14:28, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
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>>>>>> > On Jan 6, 2017, at 9:04 AM, Russell Jones  <mailto:russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk><russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk> <mailto:russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>>>> > On 06/01/17 13:22, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>>>>>> >> On Jan 6, 2017, at 2:20 AM, Ryan Schmidt  <mailto:ryandesign at macports.org><ryandesign at macports.org> <mailto:ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>>>>> >>> On Jan 5, 2017, at 09:26, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>>>>>> >>>> I just tried what you suggested for py27-numpy and it just activated without any error.
>>>>>> >>> Yes, there will not be an error at activation time. However, if you have anything installed that required py27-numpy to be universal, it will now be broken.
>>>>>> >>>> So, myports.txt has
>>>>>> >>>>  py27-numpy @1.11.3_0+gfortran (active) platform='darwin 15' archs='x86_64'
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>>>>>> >>>> And, after the migration it had installed both that and the +universal variant.
>>>>>> >>>> Yet, when I tried to activate the non-universal version it did it without complaint.  So, I really don’t understand why the +universal got built at all.
>>>>>> >>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>> >>> I don't have any answers for you, beyond the usual reasons why a port is installed universal, which are:
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>>>>>> >>> - you explicitly asked for it to be installed universal
>>>>>> >>> - you installed another port universal that depends on this port
>>>>>> >>> - you installed another port that is 32-bit only, and you are on a 64-bit machine, and the other port depends on this port (You can check if the other port says "supported_archs i386 ppc" (or the other way around))
>>>>>> >>> - it enables the universal by default, and possibly requires the universal variant to be used (You can check the portfile to see if "default_variants +universal" appears)
>>>>>> >> What seems really odd to me that I took I moved my myports.txt from one machine to another.  So, I used one machine to generate that list, and brought it to another machine to build.
>>>>>> >> Both are MacBook pros (one new and one old) and that same list, on the new machine, added a bunch of universal ports.  So, I don’t see how any of the items in the list above could do that.  If it was not universal on the old machine, why would it end up universal on the new machine?
>>>>>> >> Could going from 10.11 to 10.12 make something required to be universal?  Or could going from Xcode 7 to 8 make a port universal?  Because otherwise, I just don’t see why they should be different.
>>>>>> >> If anything, I would expect that the newer OS and newer hardware should be able to do more things as 64 bit, so would require less universal stuff.
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>>>>>> >> —Adam
>>>>>> > Could you gzip and attach the list of ports from the old machine and the output of "port installed requested"?
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>>>>>> > The approach I suggested can't work, I now realize, as variants aren't used for working out dependencies (  <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#dependonvariant>https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#dependonvariant <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#dependonvariant> )
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>>>>>> > Russell
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>>>>>> Here are the two files.  
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>>>>>> I don’t believe that I have ever intentionally installed anything +universal.  So, I’m fairly sure that anything in this list that is universal is because of 3, or 4 above.  But, when I then moved to the new machine, it proceeded to make a bunch more things universal.  
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>>>>>> As far as I’m concerned pretty much all of my ports should just be installed with default variants, so few, if any, should be universal.  As everything is now working, this is not a big deal.  But, it does mean that upgrades often must be built, instead of using the binary, which would be much faster and use less drive space.  
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>>>>>> thanks,
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>>>>>> —Adam
>>>>> It looks like the extra +universal stuff comes from the things that were marked +universal installing all their dependencies +universal, which is expected behaviour. It looks like the restore script just installs the things listed in the order given, so doesn't preserve the variants exactly (+universal satisfies a request to install with no variants, I think, though I'm unsure). You could search and replace +universal (i.e. remove all instances of it) in myports, then tear-down and redo the install, I guess.
>>>>> Russell
>>>> But, this list is from the old machine.  My question is why the new machine ended up with a lot more +universal.  For example, the list that I sent does not have +universal for py27-numpy, while the new machine, that I used the above list to install, did end up with +universal.  
>>>> If the prior machine did not require +universal, based on the dependency tree, why would the new machine require it?  Or was something broken on the old machine, where it really did require +universal, but never actually installed it that way, and I happened never to hit that bug?  
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>>>> —Adam
>>> Well, in the scenario I'm thinking of, it would be because something was built +universal that depended on py27-numpy before py27-numpy was checked for whether it's installed by itself. It's possible to install programs -universal that are depended on by others that are +universal without error or warning, as you've seen. It also seems that link checking doesn't pick it up. I'm not sure how one goes about using the 32-bit portions of programs (as opposed to linking 32-bit binaries against them, which you do with the -m32 flag, IIRC) where the program is not 32-bit only. So it's possible you only ever used the 64-bit portions of the binaries and so didn't see any problems. I'll happily concede something else may be going on.
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>>> Russell
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>> If you are correct is there any way to fix it?  One option would be to uninstall everything and then to avoid the migration script, and just to reinstall my list of requested ports and see what happens.  But, that will take some time.  Especially, since a good number of ports end up building from source instead of binaries.  But, it could be that the reason for this is that they ended up being +universal, so they were not available on the buildbots.  
>> It does seem odd that gcc6, which is only a build dependancies, is building +universal, as I would not expect that a compiler would have to match what it is building (32 bit v 64 bit).  the only port that it is needed to build and shows up as universal is py27-numpy.  So, I would guess that is why it then gets forced to be universal.
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>> —Adam
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> Well, you could try something like this:
> port installed | grep '+universal' | sed 's/@.*// <mailto:s/@.*//>' | xargs -n1 -IXYZ echo sudo port install XYZ -universal
> (remove "echo" if the output looks sane).
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> Russell

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