#Emacs for mac uninstall install#
Install is the same as InstallMacPortsUpdater above. PortsUpdate is a bash script that runs updates, upgrades & cleanup of your MacPorts package database, ensuring that you are always up to date on features & any security &/or bug fixes of your critical unixy apps. resolves an issue with launchd which is that scripts/applications/programs in /opt/local/bin are not in launchd‘s path.Ĭom. tells launchd where portsUpdate is located & when to run it. So if you want to inspect it before you install, just:Īnd then to install you would just set Install executable if it isn’t, then run it with sudo. System Preferences > Engery Saver > Enable Power Nap I tend to enable Power Nap, especially on fixed workstations: In particular, note the policy on timed launchd jobs and the computer state: if your machine is asleep, it’ll run when it wakes, if it’s off, it’ll run the next time it’s scheduled.
#Emacs for mac uninstall how to#
If you want to know how to use it and want to read the scripts (or even improve upon them!) please read on along… & your old packages will be removed every Sunday to keep your system running lean. Your MacPorts will update every morning at 3:30 a.m. If you trust me (don’t, why would you), you can just download the installer, open Terminal.app, &… PortsUpdate is a launchd xml file that runs a bash script once daily to update MacPorts, an associated launchd xml to ensure that the path is correct, and an associated installer. YMMV, I’m not responsible if you break your system in any case. I am not going to test it with older Mac versions, although if your system runs launchd, you could try it. Note: portsUpdate works with OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Introducing portsUpdate! You can download the portsUpdate via git. My goal was to automagically keep MacPorts up-to-date, ala Ubuntu’s unattended upgrades. Because I’m old, I put port selfupdate, port upgrade outdated & port uninstall inactive in root’s crontab, but then today I was reading more and decided that I really ought to do it the Mac way since it’ll be upgrade proof. Here’s the Apple kb info for timed jobs using launchd (which includes the notice of deprecation) and here’s a great tutorial on using launchd. Best practice is to move your cron jobs to launchd.
Mmmmmk, so apparently cron is going the way of the dodo on OS X/Darwin.
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