[MacPorts] Migration modified

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 14:01, MacPorts wrote:

> Changed page "Migration" by lemontea_cafe at mac.com from 17.208.104.133*
> Page URL: <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration>
> Diff URL: <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration?action=diff&version=19>
> Revision 19
> 
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> Index: Migration
> =========================================================================
> --- Migration (version: 18)
> +++ Migration (version: 19)
> @@ -27,3 +27,6 @@
> sudo port install portname +variant1 +variant2 ...
> }}}
> Note that if you have specified variants which are not the default, you may need to install ports in an order other than the alphabetical order recorded in `myports.txt`.
> +
> +=== Automated script ===
> +Attached is a shell script that automatically does the above and reinstall back the active ports. 

I don't think we want this shell script. Certainly its position in the wiki makes it look official, and I can't endorse it. It doesn't, for example, take into account three important aspects of the Migration process:

1. "install the ports that you actually want to use (as opposed to those that are only needed as dependencies)" (it installs all ports),
2. "remembering to specify the appropriate variants" (it discards variants), and
3. "if you have specified variants which are not the default, you may need to install ports in an order other than the alphabetical order recorded in myports.txt" (it installs them in alphabetical order)

It also has "MacPorts" misspelled...