[GSoC] migration

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

Lets stick to automating the current migration as close as possible. Are you using your blog to document your progress and challenges?

Email is not a great way to follow progress. Can you provide a daily summary of progress on open issue somewhere (blog) and email a link to the MP Dev list?


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)


> On Jul 5, 2017, at 12:45 PM, Umesh Singla <umeshksingla at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Since there are things which need discussions on where to add what or what checks, I guess we can keep them ongoing for now. I've moved to the migrate action and we can finalize on the issues later when you're back?
> 
> Thanks,
> Umesh
> 
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> On 2017-6-25 08:24 , Umesh Singla wrote:
> Anyway I tried consulting the existing migration guide. Why does it save the list of all installed ports and then sets the requested flags? Only installing the requested and let the dependencies figure out themselves - is it an improvement we're making now?
> 
> This works the way it does partly because of the "unrequested port with requested variants" scenario I mentioned, and because users don't necessarily have the requested flag set on all the ports they want. (We didn't always have a requested flag. Also remember we can't currently distinguish between requested and unrequested variants.) The idea with restore_ports.tcl was to bring back the installed ports exactly as they were, as much as possible. Active, inactive, requested and unrequested; all just as they were previously.
> 
> - Josh
>