When installing SVK (2.0.2) via MacPorts (port install svk) make sure that CPAN is installed and has been configured, otherwise the SVK install will go into an infinite loop wating for user input.
This is evident with a port install -v svk. Without the -v it will simply appear to hang at the Configuring svk step); see also MacPorts bug #12050. The problem is that because CPAN has not yet been configured, it is prompting for the configuration that it needs in order to install SVK.
The first time cpan is run from the command line, it will prompt for configuration data; the process can be re-run using o conf init from within the cpan shell, and individual variables can be set with o conf <variable> <value>, e.g.:
cpan> o conf wget /opt/local/bin/wget
to set, and to unset:
cpan> o conf wget ""
0 Responses to “installing SVK via macports”