[MacPorts] Migration modified

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Jan 29 06:48:11 PST 2010


On 2010-1-30 01:19 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jan 29, 2010, at 08:07, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> Doesn't this have the same problems as the previously featured automatic
>> method, `sudo port upgrade --force installed`?
> 
> I believe it does, and the same problems as the previous automatic upgrade script posted last week, about which I posted comments here:
> 
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2010-January/011131.html

Ah, indeed, at first glance I thought this new method made some attempt
to preserve variants, but I see now it doesn't.

I've changed Migration to mention restore_ports, but clearly marked that
it is experimental.

- Josh


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