migration instructions
Rainer Müller
raimue at macports.org
Thu Oct 1 07:16:50 PDT 2015
On 2015-09-15 03:20, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2015, at 19:04, Joshua Root wrote:
>>
>> I've never liked this step much, especially since by definition you
>> should only be building installed ports during migration. But it is
>> theoretically possible that someone has a half-finished build for a port
>> they don't have installed but is a dependency of something else on the
>> new platform only.
>>
>> 'sudo rm -rf /opt/local/var/macports/build/*' would do the trick but
>> apparently that wasn't "nice" enough.
>
> Not nice enough for whom? It sounds good to me and would be quicker. It wouldn't delete work symlinks though... Would that be a problem?
Dangling work symlinks should not be a problem. They are only created
for use in port development.
I updated the migration instructions now:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration?action=diff&version=87&old_version=86
Rainer
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