<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Ian,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also jumped from Lion to Sierra recently but my old Macbook pro with a HD slowed down a lot and it took a couple of days to be functional again (you have to reinstall XCode, XQuartz,…). OTOH, note that Firefox is not maintained for Lion since end of 2016 I believe. Not very secure. Finally my MBP died and I moved to a more recent one with a SSD + 16 Gb ram and speed has resumed to normal…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cheers,</div><div class="">Laurent</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 14 sept. 2017 à 10:10, Chris Jones <<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk" class="">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I understand what these messages mean and I have read the Macports Wiki pages<br class="">referred to, but I am uncertain what to do next.<br class="">1. Do I need to do any cleanup of the failed run before doing anything else? If so,<br class=""> what command(s) should I use?<br class="">2. I had a local ports tree that I no longer use. I have commented out the reference<br class=""> to it in sources.conf but do I need to re-run portindex? Or would that have been<br class=""> taken care of when I ran "sudo port selfupdate"? I have not found any way to<br class=""> re-index and include just the standard ports.<br class="">3. Can I revert to earlier versions of apps and libraries (which could at least be used<br class=""> to keep my accountant happy)? If so, what commands should I use? There are<br class=""> scores, maybe hundreds, of ports to be reactivated and there are probably lots<br class=""> that are old but still active, because the upgrade run never got to them.<br class="">4. If I stay with Lion, I understand that I have to uninstall everything, make some<br class=""> adjustments to macports.conf and then re-build from source and continue to<br class=""> do so into the future.<br class=""> OTOH I could go down to the Apple shop and get them to upgrade me to Sierra<br class=""> and then I could re-install MacPorts apps from binaries but I would also have to<br class=""> upgrade other non-Apple software I depend on a lot every day, mainly Firefox<br class=""> and LibreOffice.<br class=""> Either approach could take days (elapsed) and many hours of computer time.<br class=""> Which way would be best for me to go?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Go with 4. Update to Sierra, it will save you most trouble in the long run. No need at all to go to a store to get it done though, just do it yourself.... Download the updater from the App Store and follow the instructions. Firefox and LibreOffice might also need updating, if you haven't kept them up to date, but both will work fine in the newer OS.<br class=""><br class="">cheers Chris<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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