<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi, see inline.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Rainer Müller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raimue@macports.org" target="_blank">raimue@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2017-08-29 01:57, MacPorts wrote:<br>
> Page "Migration" was changed by thomasrussellmurphy<br>
> Diff URL: <<a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration?action=diff&version=99" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.macports.org/<wbr>wiki/Migration?action=diff&<wbr>version=99</a>><br>
> Revision 99<br>
> Comment: Change procedure to have the preparation step of logging installed ports *before* installing the new OS and upgrading MacPorts<br>
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Thank you for working on the instructions.<br>
<br>
However, I doubt that users will actually read these instructions before<br>
upgrading their OS. Quite the contrary, the port command will link to<br>
this wiki page when it detects that the OS was upgraded. I would expect<br>
this to be the most common case when users will come to this wiki page,<br>
so I think the instructions should focus on that. Right now the steps<br>
start with what they should have done before upgrading their OS, which<br>
is not helpful in this situation.<br>
<br>
What was the reason to move the steps for saving the installed/requested<br>
ports to the top?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>@Rainer, does this mean we can't help a user when user upgrades or reinstalls OS from scratch before landing on this page. This is actually a problem I have been thinking about with my GSoC project on migration this summer.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">While moving the</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> steps for saving the installed/requested to the top makes sense because that is what a user should do, ideally. But in the event of reinstalling an OS from scratch (I am not talking about 'upgrading' OS), even the `port migrate` won't be able to help us unless we have saved a list as above prior to reinstalling OS or `port` command even won't be there.</span></div><div><br></div><div>- Umesh</div></div></div></div>