Do we record which OS we were built/installed on?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 25, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> On 2013-10-26 09:16 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> On Oct 25, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
>>> On 2013-10-25 23:33, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>>> If not, maybe we should (so we can print out something like "bad user, no cookie: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration", or so we can force a selfupdate rebuild? :) )
>>> 
>>> We already have that in the registry. You can see the platform and arch
>>> with the command 'port -v installed' for each port.
>> 
>> yeah, but for this, I care about the OS that base was built/installed on.
>> 
>> Right now, doing upgrade OS + port -f selfupdate + port upgrade outdated mostly works.
>> 
>> It would be nice for end users if upgrade OS + run port = port saying 'you need to selfupdate' and have users selfupdate (ideally without -f). I might try to make some time to work up a patch, but was just curious if we keep the build/install OS version for base somewhere.
> 
> Yes, it would be a nice enhancement to record the platform base was
> configured on and at least print a warning if it doesn't match.

a warning with a link to the migration instructions, probably.

> Unfortunately the Migration instructions have good reasons for being
> written the way they are, as -f selfupdate + upgrade outdated doesn't
> always succeed.

True, but having a hook where we could do something better than what we're doing now would be good.

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