[MacPorts] Migration modified

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Jan 22 08:08:11 PST 2010


On 2010-1-22 12:42 , Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-1-22 08:06 , Dan Ports wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:45:08PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> 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:
>>
>> I'll take your word on this particular shell script (I haven't looked
>> at it) -- but I think that such a script, if done right, would be a
>> great thing to have.
> 
> Someone actually did do it right at one point IIRC. You should be able
> to find their script in the list archives.

So, here's a first pass at a Tcl version that could be integrated into
port(1) eventually:

<http://trac.macports.org/browser/users/jmr/restore_ports/>

Lightly tested, definitely has bugs, exercise caution. :-)

- Josh


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