Migrating MacPorts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 15, 2007, at 23:12, Jay Chandler wrote:

> I have to rebuild my OS due to a crappy network stack issue (TKIP  
> keeps breaking wirelessly), and want to back up my MacPorts  
> installation.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can store /opt with perms on another  
> machine, redo this box, install MacPorts, and move /opt back, and  
> everything should theoretically work, correct?
>
> Is there anything else I should do?

Presumably that would work.

You could tar it all up so that there's only a single file to move  
back and forth, and no chance of losing the permissions in the process.