Migration issue

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 13:05:42 PST 2015


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Adam Dershowitz <dersh at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Does the restore_ports.tcl script handle things any differently then just
> a standard install or upgrade?  For example, does it handle the order of
> installs differently?


It remembers active variants, so if you had perl5 +perl5_16 installed then
it would reinstall that instead of switching to the new default. (There is
not currently a way to distinguish between a default variant and an
explicitly specified one, comparable to the "requested" flag on ports.)

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