Port Reclaim

[Saagar Jha]

I have noticed that “port install” will not mark a port as requested if it is already installed (e.g. as a dependency of something else you installed). Perhaps this is something that might be worth changing?

Saagar Jha

> On Nov 6, 2023, at 04:03, Mark Anderson <mark at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Is that the only way? I've done that in the past with migrations, but for Sonoma, I did a fresh install and installed ports as I wanted them again from a list I kept. I assumed if I did a `port install` on any port it would have marked those as requested.
> 
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> On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 6:47 AM Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill at korins.ky <mailto:kirill at korins.ky>> wrote:
>> you may specificly mark your port to be requested via `port setrequested blabla`
>> 
>> -- 
>> wbr, Kirill
>> 
>>> On 6. Nov 2023, at 11:39, Mark Anderson <mark at macports.org <mailto:mark at macports.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm noticing that port reclaim routinely is asking to uninstall all my ports. And this is not post migration. The rest of the command works as I expect.
>>> 
>>> —Mark
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