How to rename a port

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 8, 2012, at 06:56, Francois Claire wrote:

> I searched on the FAQ, WiKi, tickets and portguide but couldn't find how to change the name of a port already existing in the macports.org repository.
> 
> Is this possible ? If yes what are the steps required to do it ?

I wrote these instructions:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#replaced-by

There are also these similar instructions by Marko Käning:

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.practices.html#development.practices.rename-replace-port

Finally, when Markus Weissmann renamed a lot of his ports, he created the "obsolete" portgroup to automate much of what the two preceding articles talk about.