How to remove ALL ports?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Bengt Nilsson <bengt.nilsson11 at spray.se> (BN) wrote:

>BN> 26 sep 2006 kl. 12.11 skrev Marc André Selig:

>>> On 26.09.2006, at 08:56, Bengt Nilsson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> My port system seems to be genuinely corrupt on all levels.
>>>> Is there any simple way to remove ALL ports, including port  itself, and
>>>> do it all over?
>>> 
>>> Unless you've been manually installing things into /opt:

>BN> Yes, I have some other stuff on /opt/local. I thought this was the  MacOSX
>BN> (and Linux?) standard for non-system add-ons, and not  dedicated to
>BN> macports only.
>BN> Whenever I have installed opensource I have directed it to /opt/local
>BN> rather than /usr/local.

I think you should uninstall all installed ports, clean them all
completely, and then check what is left in /opt/local. Then reinstall all
things that are left in /opt/local (and that you can identify as your
additional installs and reinstall them in /usr/local. (To prevent unwanted
references to leftovers in /opt/local you should rename /opt/local to
something else before.) After installing all the other stuff you can remove
the /opt/local stuff completely and start a fresh install.
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