reinstall issue [was: selfupdate error]

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 12, 2008, at 11:25, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Marco Battistella wrote:
>>
>
>> i installed MacPort 1.6.0 in top of the old installation but while
>> the old ports are still installed (good) the new macports
>> installation doesn't recognize them as it's own.
>> Is there a way to "tric" the new installation into recognizing the
>> ports currently installed?
>
> Your old installation still used the old DarwinPorts layout and names.
> But the code for upgrading to the new MacPorts layout is only run when
> doing an install from source, not when installing from the disk image.
> You need to do an install from source.

Apparently so. It said he was running 1.4.42 which I had hoped was  
recent enough to have the new layout. Apparently I remembered wrong.  
Sorry about that, Marco.