New Migration procedure

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sat Jul 16 17:46:04 PDT 2011


On 2011-07-17 02:03 , Joshua Root wrote:
> Well, you still run into trouble if you're coming from a different arch
> because of stuff like gawk and gsed that isn't actually depended on but
> will be used if present by just about every configure script out there.
> Otherwise the original 'port upgrade --force installed' migration
> procedure would have worked.

You are right, I haven't thought of these unlisted build dependencies. :-(

But upgrading *could* work if the tools still run correctly on the new
platform.

Rainer


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